"Kurt Busiek" <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:2008020619033675249-kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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
>
Kurt, dude, I'm not even a Stephen King fan (thank you, I can make my own
nightmares, no need for help) and even I've heard of MISERY.
-- Ken from Chicago
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