"Kurt Busiek" <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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
Well, ... I said I was not a fan.
-- Ken from Chicago (who was sure he remembered a news re****t of King in a
bad crash)
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