For Ms Mod or any others out there :
I am curious as to the inception and coming about of the Dark Tower. If this has been answered in a previous thread, just direct me there.
I am re-reading the series. I am going to read it start to finish. I am just finishing Book #1.
It got me thinking did SK have the entire series, at least the skeletal framework, all the way back in the 70s when he began writing it as short stories. Or did it evolve and expand over the 30 years to what it is today? I know in 'On Writing', he said as he wrote it he didn't know how it was going to end, so I get that. But when did he devise the whole concept of the series for the Dark Tower and how it all intertwines? I just barely read the final scene of the Gunslinger where Roland is speaking to the Man in Black, and his future is foretold. It just seems very complex for what began as a short story collection. I just wonder how the whole thing evolved.
Thanks for any info!
-f
I am curious as to the inception and coming about of the Dark Tower. If this has been answered in a previous thread, just direct me there.
I am re-reading the series. I am going to read it start to finish. I am just finishing Book #1.
It got me thinking did SK have the entire series, at least the skeletal framework, all the way back in the 70s when he began writing it as short stories. Or did it evolve and expand over the 30 years to what it is today? I know in 'On Writing', he said as he wrote it he didn't know how it was going to end, so I get that. But when did he devise the whole concept of the series for the Dark Tower and how it all intertwines? I just barely read the final scene of the Gunslinger where Roland is speaking to the Man in Black, and his future is foretold. It just seems very complex for what began as a short story collection. I just wonder how the whole thing evolved.
Thanks for any info!
-f