I seem to have missed something...

[Crown]

KJA is the perfect example why writers must admit themselves to an intelligence test before being able to write a Star Wars novel. To summerise a KJA novel (be it a stand alone or a trilogy) see below;

Okay start your story.

Introduce some new character that is some way a major threat to the entire galaxy. Make it either be more powerful than Luke Skywalker, or more devious that the Emperor himself.

Then waste a good portion of the story with shitty 'ooh' and 'uhh' scenes where you may display some non-cannon uses of the force.

Now slowly build up this character so that he is unstopable, undefeatable and generally too good to be bested.

Kill/disable a cannnon character to demostrate this.

Oh, and if you haven't already make up some new SUPER WEAPON that is naturally more of a threat than the DS. I mean after all you have to 'improve' on the movies right?

Now make this superweapon seem unbeatable, etc. See new character introduction for more.

Make any minor cannon characters play in un-familiar ways, and the original of course are so 'fixed' to the movies that it doesn't matter if they happen to be the CoS of the goddamn Republic, they still go out with their blasters and try and takle the baddies themselves.

Now you realise that you are approaching your word limit.

Cheat the ending, make it something so simple that the reader would want to pull their hair out in fustration, when they realise that the whole story could have been finished in 20 pages.

Ohh and for good measure fuck with other writer's characters if the chance presents its self. I mean surely you could do a better job right?

[KhyronTheBackstabber]

Wow Crown, you just decribed how the writers of Trek come up with their plots. I wounder if KJA, and B&B went to the same school.

[Kuja]

Crown, you forgot the necessary and unavoidable Kyp Durron sub-saga.

[Ghost Rider]

Nice one Crown.

Oh god please no more Kyp...I swear when will they kill off that KJA masturbatory fantasy.

I mean he's exactly Crown whole inrtoduce a new character make him god...then etc.

[Cal Wright]

LoL. this came to me on the OT forum when Verilon asked about worst authors. It took me a second because I was going to say Barbara Hambly. However, even as shitty and boring as her two books were, think about it. After Children of the Jedi, came Darksabre. Now Hambly actually had a setup going and the story actually rolled, but KJA got in there and fell flat on his face. LoL. Marathon Man falling flat on his face. LoL.

[Crayz9000]

The "Jedi Academy" Trilogy was his first foray IIRC. He also wrote Darksaber. That's all I know. That's all I WANT to know.

He also wrote the Young Jedi Knights series with his wife. I'm not sure if this was due to her influence, but the character development in that series was at least more believable than the original Jedi Academy series. However, the plots were usually more of the same, boring, insignificant-in-size-but-damned-big-threat-to-the-New Republic plots.

[Crown]

Why thank you guys! *blushes*

verilon did you get all that? After all it was written for your benefit!

[Crown]

insignificant-in-size-but-damned-big-threat-to-the-New Republic plots

You should really trade mark that one! It was perfect!