The Trouble With Being God

Edits Continue, Ending Clarification Improved

Posted by William under book

Edits are still continuing at my own pace for the final version of The Trouble With Being God.  The final version is still likely a few weeks out, but a method for clarifying the ending without changing what happens (or dumbing it down) has finally been figured out.

As I continue with the edits, the ending continues to the the only area that will really be altered in any way, and even then it will mostly be addition of some extra exposition that was frankly left out in the original.  It always happened, but I hadn’t really discovered the proper way of including it without ruining some of the suspense around the climax. This morning I figured out the best way to do it - and I think it will work out quite well.

As part of this, the Epilogue (called “Resurrection” in the original draft) is planned to be completely removed from the book.  This doesn’t mean what happens changes - but instead of sticking a nice neat bow at the end (which it really wasn’t, since I think it actually made people say WTF even more) the ending of the story itself should better explain what happens.

We’ll see how it all pans out when I do the rewrite, but for the time being this seems to be a very solid, albeit minorly major, improvement.