On Feb 6, 9:32=A0pm, Kurt Busiek <k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 2008-02-06 19:24:54 -0800, tphile <tph...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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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> >>>news:XOOdnTuA6tO2qzfanZ2dnUVZ_uWlnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>> Are there any sf series where professional writing plays a
"significa=
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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? =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?
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> MISERY is clearly about writing, but it's not about King's car
> accident. =A0It came out in 1987, twelve years before the accident.
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> > and does writing from experience explain Geralds Game?
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> No idea, and I don't think I want to know.
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> 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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I am gonna have to wait for the movie then.
In spite of being a lifelong book reader I have a real problem with
Kings
I had read some of his earlier works but Tommyknockers just ended it
for me
and I haven't been able to get thru another King story since. For me
taking ten
pages to describe what other great writers could write in 10
paragraphs is not good
storytelling. Its like trying to run thru mud.
I even started Gunslinger about a dozen times over the years but just
lost interest
I suppose thats happened to most everyone here at some point with some
book or author
I am sure real experience can enhance a story but then this is also a
SF&F group
How many here have actually been in space, travelled time, killed orcs
or even leaped
tall buildings in a single bound
;-)
tphile
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