Talk:Job's Ashes/@comment-35071950-20191010164202/@comment-24101790-20191010170839

Thanks for reading! To be honest, I've written all I plan on writing in this series as I feel like going into backstories and other perspective would detract from it by including details that aren't essential to the plot. I mainly wanted to focus on easily identifiable characters (angels, demons, and Gods) that a majority of readers are going to be familiar with and have conceived notions of what they are.

I've been asked to write sequels to stories like A Small Piece of Lead, Fleshgait, and Chimerical and it always ends up muddying the waters a bit on the original point so I tend to avoid it. My point with Job's Ashes for example was to present a horror scenario (a God who is cruel and is vicariously living through humanity's suffering as a means of entertainment) and giving an explanation would weaken the impact. With a sequel to this, now it's not about this unfeeling, calculating, and callous entity, it's a story about an ethereal being who is disappointed by something we did and that doesn't come off as impactful to me as this wholly unknowable thing with intentions and thoughts that we can never comprehend/make sense of.

Once more, thanks for reading.