On 2008-02-07 00:26:48 -0800, "Ken from Chicago"
<kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>
> "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.
You think MISERY was written based on his car accident?
Neat trick, considering that it was published over a decade before
thecar accident.
kdb
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