On 2008-02-06 16:44:13 -0800, "John" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>
> "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:XOOdnTuA6tO2qzfanZ2dnUVZ_uWlnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Are there any sf series where professional writing plays a
"significant",
>> not necessarily dominant or featured, but a good-sized ****tion to be
>> noticeable part of the story?
>>
>> By "writing" I'm including:
>> --The act of writing and / or typing.
>> --The working out of stories, outline, plot points, painted corners,
etc.
>> --The editing and reediting and internal critiquing of the story.
>> --The publi****ng, selecting of material, the printing of said material,
>> etc.
>> --The selling of books, marketing, advertising, book tours, cons,
junkets,
>> etc.
>>
>> -- Ken from Chicago
>>
>> P.S. I excluded the "researching" because that allows MURDER, SHE WROTE
>> style series, where solving murders becomes "research" for stories, and
I
>> was interested more in the field of writing itself.
>>
>
> Virtually everything Steven King has written in recent years involves
> writers and writing. And his damn car accident.
And much of it's been quite good.
DUMA KEY, for instance, clearly has great whacks of him "writing what
he knows," but it gives the novel a lot of creadibility in the
real-world stuff that serves the book well when the spooky supernatural
stuff starts happening.
The fact that I know he's drawing on experience rather than research
doesn't make it work less well.
But other than DUMA KEY -- and autobiographical stuff like ON WRITING,
of course -- what's he written based on the car accident? I don't
doubt there's something, but aside from a few references in THE DARK
TOWER, it's not coming to mind.
kdb
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