![]() The first and most obvious one, to me, was to move the Well of Ascension sequence to the next book, use it as a kind of ‘opener’ sequence like the Jabba sequence in Return of the Jedi.īut I didn’t like that plan here. ![]() My big fear was that this ending would feel tacked on and anti-climactic-and, indeed, it felt that way to me as I was ending the novel. Unfortunately, as I was writing it, I felt that it just didn’t work. I generally give myself enough flexibility to change my outline as I go, but this item was so fundamental to the structure of the book that I wanted to give it a shot as plotted. So that’s how I originally wrote the book. We would do the big battle in Luthadel, tie it up, then have a kind of ‘second ending’ to the book where the characters went to find the Well of Ascension and we got the big reveal. I worried that dealing with the Well of Ascension would distract from that, and decided in outlining that the best thing to do was approach the climaxes separately. It was one of the big turning points in the series.īut I also wanted the big climax of the second book to revolve around the siege of Luthadel. I wanted to have something go monstrously wrong at the end of the second book-I wanted to upend the concept of the prophesy in fantasy series, at least as prophesies are commonly used. During early outlining of the Mistborn trilogy, I realized that there was going to be a bad break between books two and three. That’s what I’ve posted here, in all of its embarrassing glory.Īctually, as I look it over, it’s not really that embarrassing, particularly if you understand the way I was approaching this story. You might have noticed that I mentioned in the annotations that there was originally a different ending to the book. I’ll assume that everyone who’s gotten this far has read all of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension in its published form. I hate it when people look at endings first, and it’s even more cringe-inducing to think of them reading an early, unpublished ending to a book before reading the actual novel. I guess it’s the sense of drama inherent in a storyteller. I always worry-perhaps overly much-about people having my books spoiled for them by reading something like this, which is part of an early draft with a different ending. If you haven’t read either novel, might I request you give them a read? Or, perhaps go download WARBREAKER, the free novel I have up for download on this very website? ![]() Well, first off let me say that this will-obviously-contain MAJOR SPOILERS for not only Mistborn Two, but first book as well.
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