King Is Right About One Thing.

[NOIRTRASH]

When it comes to word count don't let your alligator mouth smother your hummingbird ass.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have no idea what you're trying to say.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I have no idea what you're trying to say.

No surprise. So I'll say it with TEX-Speak.

Stephen King say writers s stuff ten pounds of shit in a 9 pound bag. They over-write their capacity to keep the story in-mind. Writers juggle to many balls.

 

[lovecraft68]

No surprise. So I'll say it with TEX-Speak.

Stephen King say writers s stuff ten pounds of shit in a 9 pound bag. They over-write their capacity to keep the story in-mind. Writers juggle to many balls.

Well if that's the case King is clearly spouting out stuff he thinks sounds good because he sure as hell doesn't write like that. He goes on and on.

The original Stand is 800+ pages. Once he blew up he released an uncut version 1100+ words and know what? Whoever cut out those 300 words was a good edior because it was all garbage and filler.

Not to mention in pretty much every book he goes off on some type of memory, dream, tangent, rant to make some type of weird point in the middle of a scene that's so long you forget what was happening in real time.

Can't argue with his success and some of his first books are in my top 20 of all time, but he does not practice what he preaches.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Well if that's the case King is clearly spouting out stuff he thinks sounds good because he sure as hell doesn't write like that. He goes on and on.

The original Stand is 800+ pages. Once he blew up he released an uncut version 1100+ words and know what? Whoever cut out those 300 words was a good edior because it was all garbage and filler.

Not to mention in pretty much every book he goes off on some type of memory, dream, tangent, rant to make some type of weird point in the middle of a scene that's so long you forget what was happening in real time.

Can't argue with his success and some of his first books are in my top 20 of all time, but he does not practice what he preaches.

SK's early efforts are good, in the 80s things went to hell. SK says drugs made him famous, and he cant write sober. Its all in interviews.

 

[lovecraft68]

SK's early efforts are good, in the 80s things went to hell. SK says drugs made him famous, and he cant write sober. Its all in interviews.

Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Stand were all excellent. Pet Sematary may be my favorite. The last real good one I felt was The Dark Half. It was close to a thousand pages....case in point.

Son is a great comic book writer....wonder if he drinks too?

 

[SimonDoom]

Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Stand were all excellent. Pet Sematary may be my favorite. The last real good one I felt was The Dark Half. It was close to a thousand pages....case in point.

Agree about King. He's written many enjoyable books but he does not edit himself. Salem's Lot was great because he stuck with fairly brisk pacing, didn't go off on too many tangents, and moved things along to an appropriate end. In later books, like Under the Dome or 11/22/63, he just went on and on. I don't think he knew how to end them, so he just kept going. Each of those books could have been half as long and twice as good.

His short stories are great because they don't have this problem.

 

[lovecraft68]

Agree about King. He's written many enjoyable books but he does not edit himself. Salem's Lot was great because he stuck with fairly brisk pacing, didn't go off on too many tangents, and moved things along to an appropriate end. In later books, like Under the Dome or 11/22/63, he just went on and on. I don't think he knew how to end them, so he just kept going. Each of those books could have been half as long and twice as good.

His short stories are great because they don't have this problem.

I mentioned Pet Semetary as my fav. Mostly because of how goddamn creepy Rachel's story of her sister's death was (and they did it justice in the movie) and a great basic concept.

But even in that one...when Gage is hit by the truck he goes off on this page after page tangent of Louis seeing Gage growing up, going to college, meeting a wife to be...on and on....

I gave up on him after that odd Desperation/Regulators tie in that was just...honestly crap.

I tried reading Black House that he co-wrote with Peter Straub a sequel to their other joint effort the Talisman. I gave up after 90 pages because that 90 pages was King describing the town and every friggin person that lived there.

 

[TxRad]

No surprise. So I'll say it with TEX-Speak.

Stephen King say writers s stuff ten pounds of shit in a 9 pound bag. They over-write their capacity to keep the story in-mind. Writers juggle to many balls.

You want Tex-speak, let me give you some.

It has been nice and peaceful around here for the last however many days you've been gone and now you're back spouting off about something you don't understand and never will. Just another hey look at me moment.

That about sums it up. Have a nice day.

 

[tryn2Bgood]

Well if that's the case King is clearly spouting out stuff he thinks sounds good because he sure as hell doesn't write like that. He goes on and on.

The original Stand is 800+ pages. Once he blew up he released an uncut version 1100+ words and know what? Whoever cut out those 300 words was a good edior because it was all garbage and filler.

Not to mention in pretty much every book he goes off on some type of memory, dream, tangent, rant to make some type of weird point in the middle of a scene that's so long you forget what was happening in real time.

Can't argue with his success and some of his first books are in my top 20 of all time, but he does not practice what he preaches.

Yep! You took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Kings early books are well organized, after he was run over the organization is missing. The early books are tight, the later books have happy feet like an old man with alzheimjers.