The Dark Tower

Stephen King began writing "The Dark Tower" in 1970 and finished it in 2004. It began as a loose, open-ended series of verbose short stories written by an inspired and unstructured young man. It ended as a several thousand page, seven book epic that has come to symbolize the career (to date) of one of the most successful professional writers the world has ever known.

Another way to look at it: "The Dark Tower" is right up my alley. It embodies the type of story that I have forever been inspired by and have always dreamed of creating: the ever-long epic jourey, an exciting, rushing wave made up of all sorts of fascinating characters and locales, real-world elements woven in with the supernatural... a wave that builds and gathers up the reader (or audience) with its force, brings us along for one hell of a ride, and then finally crashes ashore, leaving us soaking wet and shuddering with excitement, ready (but not wanting) to stand up and look for the next adventure (which is where I find myself tonight, having just finished it).

And on top of that, it's got great context. Thirty-four years of time between the first and last pages, and all of the intrigue that goes along with a story that was as long in the making as it is in the taking.

Nice work, Steven King. You've done something that I've always dreamed of doing- and you've inspired me to keep trying.

Thank ya.