Stand Ending Question - Spoilers!!!

[michal]

I read, I think it was in On Writing that Mr. King had difficulties ending this book and that the idea of the ending the whole tale with a huge explosion came to him after he was a few hundreds of pages into the novel.

My question is this: Since the entire Trash Can story builds up towards the direction of a final destruction, was his character only added as an afterthought? A thread that was woven into the already written story so it will lead to the "inevitable" ending?

[sam peebles]

I believe in On Writing he meant the explosion that occurs in the middle of the book, in Boulder Colorado, at the Ad Hoc Committee house (I don't remember the two characters names that set it off, the pimply kid that was in love with Frannie and the one that becomes Flagg's wife). The one that kills Nick. He was not referring to the one at the end. He was coming bogged down in the middle of the book and didn't know where to go with it. This explosion sets of the series of events that leads the book to its new direction, with Stu and Ralph and Larry and everyone heading to Vegas.

[ShootDaSquirrells]

I believe in On Writing he meant the explosion that occurs in the middle of the book, in Boulder Colorado, at the Ad Hoc Committee house (I don't remember the two characters names that set it off, the pimply kid that was in love with Frannie and the one that becomes Flagg's wife). The one that kills Nick. He was not referring to the one at the end. He was coming bogged down in the middle of the book and didn't know where to go with it. This explosion sets of the series of events that leads the book to its new direction, with Stu and Ralph and Larry and everyone heading to Vegas.

Yes I am pretty sure you are write because in On Writing he was trying to find a way to conclude the story. he says the answer was sending the Committee to the West. So I feel he was refferring to the explosion during the Committee's meeting.