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I haven't read the book, but I know he's a very dedicated and hard-working writer. I just thought the meme was funny.
Writing is like exercising your muscles. You usually have to do it regularly in order to have the ability to do something like write a novel. My mom writes novels and when she isn't, she writes short stories. She doesn't even send them to be published, they're just practice for when she writes novels.
Of course, in Stephen King's case, if has a collection of his grocery lists, someone would publish it.
I seriously wish I could just do it the way your mom is! I can't seem to get "over myself" though. I start writing and immediately think "who the fuck am I to be writing?! How fucking pretentious can I be?"
People say you aren't your job, but I can't help believing all I am is an uneducated factory worker and it affects my motivation tremendously.
To be fair, she did not start writing fiction until her 70s. She wrote a couple of academic books back in the late 1960s and that was it. She even got out of academia by the 80s and did absolutely no more writing.
But when my father died and she was looking for something to do with the extra time she had, she picked up writing fiction. She's gotten some good reviews too. Obviously nothing even close to the level of Stephen King, but she is published by a legitimate publisher.
That said, now that she's in her 80s and her memory is not what it was, there are some pretty serious continuity issues I've had to point out before she submits manuscripts now.
But it's clearly never too late to start... and considering some of the absolutely shitty writers in this world, I wouldn't feel pretentious about it if I were you. You can't possibly be worse than, for example, E. L. James. And people make movies out of her bad S&M Twilight fan fic.
I’d highly recommend it, even as an autobiography. It really shows who he is, was, and is only about 30% craft advice sprinkled among good shit.
I will put it on my ever-growing list. Thank you. I'll probably be able to get to it by 2030 or so at this point. So many books, so little time.
Yeah. I don’t even read, I just add to the list.
The audio version is where it’s at in this case. It’s short and narrated by King which really makes it.