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James Dashner, author of the bestselling dystopian Maze Runner series, has just released the final book in the epic saga: prequel The Fever Code, which reveals the story behind the Maze, and how it came to be. Here’s Dashner on the flash of inspiration that inspired the series–and the years of hard work that came next.
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What a ride it has been.
With the publication of The Fever Code, the prequel and final book in the Maze Runner series, I’ll have reached the end of what’s proven to be the best decade of my life. I’m not saying the journey is over. We have another movie to make, for one thing, and hopefully there’ll always be new readers to discover the tale of Thomas and the Gladers. So not the end, but it certainly feels like an ending, the crossing of a finish line I could never have envisioned in 2005, when the idea of a gigantic stone maze first popped into my head.
As one would probably guess, the path to publication of the first book was far from smooth. During the first few years of this new millennium, I worked on a series of books for young readers called the Jimmy Fincher Saga, an experience I loved and from which I learned a lot about writing. The series found a home at a tiny publisher, but the vast majority of humans on planet Earth have never heard of it. By the time it was completed in 2005, I had caught the bug (not the Flare, thankfully), and dedicated my life to becoming a full-time author. Someday.
What to do next? I wondered. I wanted it to be something different, something original, something large in scope and high in concept. I wanted to write for an older audience, let my dark side (blame Stephen King) shine through. (And yes, darkness can shine.) I didn’t want to force the issue, but I had confidence my hyperimaginative brain would come up with something eventually.
It happened on a night late in 2005 as I was going to bed. I thought of a dark future, a world zapped by catastrophe, and a nasty virus. But none of that seemed very original. And then, in as close to a vision as I’ll ever come in life, a giant stone maze entered my mind. And I mean, it really came into my mind—I could see it inside my head, exactly as I ended up describing it in the book, and almost exactly as Wes Ball and his team envisioned it for the movie.
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A maze. The Maze.
And then the ideas started tumbling from that scary place inside my brain that likes to spit out craziness. I had to get up from bed. I went downstairs, found a notebook, and started scribbling furiously, writing down whatever popped in my head no matter how ridiculous. It was Brainstorming 101. Some of the ideas stuck, some of them were terrible. But after a couple of hours, I had the backbone and basic details of the story that would become The Maze Runner. I’m not sure I’ve had such a rush of creative flow before or since.
I was very excited about my new idea. Despite having a full-time job and three kids, I wrote the first draft in two months. I spent another month cleaning it up. I thought I’d created a masterpiece and was ready to show my brilliance to the world.
It was time for a reality check.
That reality check lasted almost three years. Rejection after rejection after rejection. I won’t bore you with the details, but let’s just say I learned a lot of valuable lessons over that time. Most importantly, I realized my writing needed to improve. And I worked hard at that. I attended writing conferences, I wrote an entirely different book (which was eventually published as The 13th Reality), I read books on writing and just kept at it. I’d set a goal to become a full-time author, and since I was an accountant at the time, I was willing to do whatever it took to make my dream come true. As I always tell my kids, I’d have run over my own grandmother to make it. (Luckily, it didn’t come to that.)
Well, 2005 turned into 2006 turned into 2007. And then 2008 came around. Honestly, I’d shelved my story about a maze and just about given up on it, looking to the future with my 13th Reality series and whatever came after that. But my sweet wife wouldn’t stop talking about those people running around in a giant stone maze. She loved it, and kept telling me to try again. So I did.
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I pulled The Maze Runner manuscript from an old, rickety shelf and blew off the dust. (Okay, what I really did was find the file on my laptop and open it.) I read through it and did a lot of wincing and looking between my fingers in horror. It needed a lot of work. With a weary sigh, I began. I threw several months of effort at it, basically rewriting the whole thing, adding depth and new scenes, differentiating my characters, building the world in more detail, cleaning up a lot of clunkiness, you name it.
In the end, it became something that made me proud. Having gone through so much, so many years and revisions, the characters became real in a way that I may never be able to match again. The story was alive in me. I wanted the world to read it so badly it kept me up at night. And so, I tried again.
This time, things were different. My agent, Michael Bourret, agreed to represent me within a couple of days of my emailing him the manuscript. Krista Marino at Random House, who became my editor, bought the book three weeks later. Twentieth Century Fox optioned the movie rights. On October 6, 2009, The Maze Runner was released to bookstores all over North America. What a difference three years—and a whole lot of work—makes.
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Eight weeks after Krista purchased the rights to my book, my dream finally came true. I was able to leave accounting behind forever and become a full-time author. And no grandmas were run over in the process.
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Seven years, five books, two movies, forty-five languages, and meeting thousands of readers later, here I am. The Fever Code—an ending, but not the ending. Hopefully, the story of a boy sent to a maze can live forever, even if it’s only in my heart and mind. Thank you for hitching a ride on my journey, and for not jumping out along the way.