Write a story like Stephen King
Dec 7, 2023 15:50:59 GMT 10
Post by account_disabled on Dec 7, 2023 15:50:59 GMT 10
Some time ago I read King's autobiographical essay On Writing , which talks about his career as a writer, how he began, with anecdotes and clips from the author's life that I would never have imagined. An interesting book that made me think again about classic books that "teach writing". In reality, every book teaches you how to write, even if it's written in a terrible way, and I don't have to tell you why. On Writing , however, will make you understand how the writer Stephen King works.
Shortly before, I read Salem's Lot , a horror film that I liked, even if it has some flaws that I'll reveal below, the first novel by the author that I decided to read. Well, in that novel - an edition created for the anniversary of the story, with useless pieces eliminated from the first edition and inserted at the end of the book without logic - there is a Phone Number Data beautiful preface by King, in which he explains how he created that novel and as everyone else wrote, for that matter. The importance of the situation Stephen King had an idea, stick Dracula in Jerusalem's Lot and see what would happen. And an idea is a situation, after all. Every story is.
Writing a story in this way immediately raises a question: what happens now? I know of many writers who start writing a novel from the end, as I said several posts ago. And I agree with him. I know a writer who told me that as soon as he has the ending in mind, then he will start writing and it will be fast too. Am I the only one who's filled 3 pages of plot and I'm still not done? No, right? I was talking about the importance of the situation. One situation is not enough, I believe, because there is a whole world to create. The writer immediately faces an obstacle: answering that question. And what happens now? I therefore believe that we need to distinguish between situation and history.
Shortly before, I read Salem's Lot , a horror film that I liked, even if it has some flaws that I'll reveal below, the first novel by the author that I decided to read. Well, in that novel - an edition created for the anniversary of the story, with useless pieces eliminated from the first edition and inserted at the end of the book without logic - there is a Phone Number Data beautiful preface by King, in which he explains how he created that novel and as everyone else wrote, for that matter. The importance of the situation Stephen King had an idea, stick Dracula in Jerusalem's Lot and see what would happen. And an idea is a situation, after all. Every story is.
Writing a story in this way immediately raises a question: what happens now? I know of many writers who start writing a novel from the end, as I said several posts ago. And I agree with him. I know a writer who told me that as soon as he has the ending in mind, then he will start writing and it will be fast too. Am I the only one who's filled 3 pages of plot and I'm still not done? No, right? I was talking about the importance of the situation. One situation is not enough, I believe, because there is a whole world to create. The writer immediately faces an obstacle: answering that question. And what happens now? I therefore believe that we need to distinguish between situation and history.