On 2008-02-06 19:24:54 -0800, tphile <tphile@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 6, 9:03 pm, 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
"significant
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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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>>> 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
>> stuff starts happening.
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>> The fact that I know he's drawing on experience rather than research
>> doesn't make it work less well.
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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? I 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?
MISERY is clearly about writing, but it's not about King's car
accident. It came out in 1987, twelve years before the accident.
> and does writing from experience explain Geralds Game?
No idea, and I don't think I want to know.
But the idea that parts of DUMA KEY are informed by his experience
rehabbing from his injuries doesn't mean that everything he's written
is based on actual experience.
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