13 years later and the author is well aware of the impact her series continues to have on teen book fans, as well as some of their classrooms, with the dystopian fantasy often being hailed as a criticism of modern society.<\/p>\n
Sitting down with Express at MCM Comic Con, the 36-year-old admitted: \u201cI don\u2019t worry that we\u2019re going to divide ourselves into virtue-based factions, no one\u2019s doing that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are themes that are relevant, the way we separate and categorise each other and use those categories to dismiss each other is real and something I think about\u2026 but it\u2019s not 1984,\u201d she joked, referencing George Orwell\u2019s iconic dystopian state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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She continued: \u201cI don\u2019t think Divergent surfaced from a place of social critique in the way a lot of dystopia has. It was more dystopian fantasy, a fun thought experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Veronica candidly admits her debut was a \u201cblaze of ignorance\u201d, claiming the \u201cextreme arrogance of youth\u201d was a major factor behind why she was able to take such a bold first step into her career and she does have some words of wisdom for other eager creatives seeking that first big high.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cYou have to let it go. It\u2019s not bad to have dreams but what\u2019s important is to focus on the work itself because you only get this life and you can\u2019t spend all of your time reaching for something instead of what\u2019s right in front of you. If you do that work, maybe good things will come of it, but you can\u2019t control whether good things come or not.\u201d<\/p>\n
While there hasn\u2019t been a development on the Divergent front since Allegiant\u2019s cinematic release in 2016, the author revealed fans could soon be getting some unexpected updates: \u201cI did a short story recently on Tris\u2019 perspective if she had chosen Abnegation which was really fun, maybe I\u2019ll do more of that casually.<\/p>\n
“It was a great way to revisit the series in a way that was creative and positive – not that I have negative feelings about it but it was really stressful and a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Elsewhere in her writings, Veronica is returning to her usual sandbox of Chicago in her latest work When Among Crows and is in the midst of writing a sequel for the contemporary retelling of Slavic folklore.<\/p>\n
While it may hold some similarities to her iconic debut on the surface, this novella is far more personal as it forced the author to delve into the Polish ancestory she felt she \u201cwasn\u2019t allowed\u201d to see because she was born in America rather than her family\u2019s homeland.<\/p>\n
She lifted the lid on her writing process: \u201cThe tricky part was giving myself permission and approaching it with respect. But with any mythology and any folklore you have to let go of accuracy because accuracy doesn\u2019t exist with folklore. People who teach folklore in college usually post their reading lists so I have huge stacks of used textbooks just sitting at my house. Writing is eternal college.\u201d<\/p>\n
When it comes to finding ideas for new projects, the writer seems to get much of her outlandish dystopian fantasy plots from her everyday life. The seeds of Divergent sparked in her psychology course at college while one of her more recent works, Arch Conspirator, seemingly came as an act of defiance.<\/p>\n
The novella is a futuristic science fiction retelling of the Greek tragedy Antigone, which arose when she was \u201ccomplaining to a friend about how many retellings there were\u201d. The conversation ended with Veronica declaring she\u2019d never do a retelling of the ancient classics, but a few hours later she admitted: \u201cUnless it\u2019s Antigone\u2026in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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