Quote Originally Posted by Spinebreaker View Post
I hate to be the one to bring facts into an internet discussion board...

"Now he's finished the story he is trying to decide how much he can rewrite it, if he views the sequence as one very long novel. Can he do a second draft? He hopes so. Currently, Stephen King is a character in the fifth and sixth Dark Tower books, and Stephen King the non-fictional author is wondering whether to take him out on the next draft."

Interview with Stephen King by Neil Gaiman, earlier this year. You can find it here... http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/0...interview.html The necessary section iss just over 3/4 of the way down.

So, yeah. If you wanna listen to the man himself, there's a lot of truth to the idea of a rewrite.
Now that you're done sounding snotty and smug to everyone here before you've even introduced yourself, let me just say I think you're totally wrong. The rewrite Gaiman is referring to isn't a literal re-write of the entire series, it's finding parts of the story that might be missing and remain unwritten. You conveniently left out the part of the interview just before this paragraph where they're talking about how King has just finished "The Wind Through the Keyhole":

"His next book, The Wind in the Keyhole, is a Dark Tower novel, part of a sequence that King plotted and began when he was little more than a teenager himself. The sequence took him years to finish, and he only finished spurred on my his assistants, Marsha and Julie, who were tired of fielding fan letters asking when the story would be completed."

So the re-write being referred to is how many stories like TWTTK might still be undiscovered.

So, yeah. If you actually read the whole article, there's not much truth to the idea of a rewrite.