Stephen King in The Washington Post

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Fantastic! Thanks, Linda.
 

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Good article, I enjoyed that.
 

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great article. His description of how a writer writes reminded me so much of how I write that it inspired me. I can't wait til the kids take a nap so I can dedicate a couple hours to the WIP. :)
 

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Great article.

I especially loved his description of the writing muse:

There is indeed a half-wild beast that lives in the thickets of each writer's imagination. It gorges on a half-cooked stew of suppositions, superstitions and half-finished stories. It's drawn by the stink of the image-making stills writers paint in their heads. The place one calls one's study or writing room is really no more than a clearing in the woods where one trains the beast (insofar as it can be trained) to come. One doesn't call it; that doesn't work. One just goes there and picks up the handiest writing implement (or turns it on) and then waits.

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Thanks for the link. How excited am I to hear another writer book coming. Last I'd heard, King said Bag of Bones would be the last book about writers.
 

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I was curious to know what he meant by this:

This is a real thing I'm talking about, not a romanticization. As someone who has written with chronic pain, I can tell you that when it's good, it's better than the best pill.
Is he talking about real physical pain or the imaginary version that happens when the words just don't come.

Interesting read. Thanks for sharing the link.
 

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SpookyWriter said:
I was curious to know what he meant by this:

Is he talking about real physical pain or the imaginary version that happens when the words just don't come.

Interesting read. Thanks for sharing the link.

I think it's the real physical pain, probably from his accident?
 

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I think he is still in pain from the accident he had. He writes about how that affected his writing in his book "on writing."
JMHO
 

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I'm sure that's what he's talking about...not to mention he written through addictions and he's gradually losing his sight.
 

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his muse had a gender change.
in on writing it was a man
 

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More evidence that Stephen King is the coolest man in the universe. If I could be pals with any writer, it'd be him. His advice is always dead-on.
 

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That's a great, reassuring article.
 

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Sassenach said:
More evidence that Stephen King is the coolest man in the universe. If I could be pals with any writer, it'd be him. His advice is always dead-on.
I wish he was my neighbor! But I could do without the bomb threats he gets...lol.
 
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