On Feb 6, 9:03=A0pm, Kurt Busiek <k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 2008-02-06 16:44:13 -0800, "John" <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Are there any sf series where professional writing plays a
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> >> not necessarily dominant or featured, but a good-sized ****tion to be
> >> noticeable part of the story?
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> >> By "writing" I'm including:
> >> --The act of writing and / or typing.
> >> --The working out of stories, outline, plot points, painted corners,
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> >> --The editing and reediting and internal critiquing of the story.
> >> --The publi****ng, selecting of material, the printing of said
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> >> --The selling of books, marketing, advertising, book tours, cons,
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> >> -- Ken from Chicago
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> >> P.S. I excluded the "researching" because that allows MURDER, SHE
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> >> was interested more in the field of writing itself.
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> > Virtually everything Steven King has written in recent years involves
> > writers and writing. And his damn car accident.
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> And much of it's been quite good.
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> 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
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> The fact that I know he's drawing on experience rather than research
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> But other than DUMA KEY -- and autobiographical stuff like ON WRITING,
> of course -- what's he written based on the car accident? =A0I don't
> doubt there's something, but aside from a few references in THE DARK
> TOWER, it's not coming to mind.
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Misery?
and does writing from experience explain Geralds Game?
tphile
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