Tag: Stephen King
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1) Walk into library 2) Pick a book off the shelves.
Today I’m writing because I’ve recently rediscovered the pleasure of something I haven’t done for fun since high school: walking into a library, picking up a novel I’d never heard of and had no prior plans to read, and getting sucked in from jacket to epilogue. As a writer, I’m also an avid reader, but…
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On Stephen King’s 11/22/63
I remember reading somewhere (probably in his memoir On Writing) that Stephen King subjects early drafts of his manuscripts to a little test: he’ll put a copy in the hands of his wife, a cherished Ideal Reader, and monitor her reactions as she reads. If there’s a passage he means to be funny, and hopes…
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Julie Takes The Internet By Storm
A STAGGERING 12 LIKES ON FACEBOOK AND A WEBSITE BESIDES JULIE ISRAEL, self It doesn’t take much to excite an unpublished author. “Twelve likes!” Julie Israel, one such aspiring novelist exclaims. “That’s almost a baker’s dozen!” Israel, the author of various WIP, has been working on her author platform since early this year. Or last…
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Writing as Telepathy
I’ve recently finished reading Stephen King’s aptly-titled memoir, On Writing. As one would expect, Mr. King had some very interesting things to say on the subject. Namely, that it’s magic. If I hadn’t already returned the book to the library I’d quote it to you from the King himself, verbatim, but let me see if…
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