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Feb 7, 7:19 pm, "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On 2008-02-07 00:26:48 -0800, "Ken from Chicago"
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> >> "Kurt Busiek" <k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>news:2008020619033675249-kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> 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",
> >>>>> not necessarily dominant or featured, but a good-sized ****tion to
be
> >>>>> noticeable part of the story?
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> >>>>> 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.
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> >>>>> -- Ken from Chicago
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> >>>>> 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.
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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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> >>> kdb
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> >> 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.
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> > You think MISERY was written based on his car accident?
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> > Neat trick, considering that it was published over a decade before
> > thecar
> > accident.
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> > kdb
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> Well, ... I said I was not a fan.
~
~Given that the movie came out long before the accident, I'm not sure
~that's a good excuse.
No, it's not.
-- Ken from Chicago
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