I really like Stephen King, as a person. Not overly serious. And its nice to hear writers say they enjoy the process, rather than how excruciating it can be, which I'm sure it is.
I just read my book after setting it down a year. It was captivating. I cried all through it. I used those exact words to describe. Out of body experience.
Especially if as follow-up after 1,5 movie adaptation. First the old one, next the new one - and then you shovel into pit of IT with original book, when everything starts to make sense. May worth a try.
Pet Sematary was almost my favorite King book until I read It for the second time back in 2014. Pet Sematary's ending is spectacular and chilling in its simplicity.
I loved Stephen King's books for a while but nowadays, among others, I much prefer John Irving. I very much like his approach of finding the last sentence first which he explained thusly: He wants to take the reader on an emotional journey and he needs to make sure it's worth it. So he needs to know first where the journey will end. Then he develops the whole story to culminate in this sentence. I find that amazing. That way the sentence is really loaded with emotion once you get to it because Irving always describes the whole life of the protagonist up to that point and all the important twists and turns and the relationships, what was gained and what was lost along the way. It is just awesome.
It's interesting how King describes his process with the red string in the hole in the floor. It reminds me a lot of how David Lynch describes his process which is that he is in one room and in the other room the painting/film/composition is complete and he continues to get little pieces of the puzzle during the process.
Sthephen king you are my favorite author and I'm only 9 and teachers say I should not read your books and is it true that you got writers block why writing it I loved the remake of the old one I've seen the old one about 4 times and the 2017 one 2 times love your books
Everybody else on UA-cam seems to be saying that one should have an outline, and stick to that, and not go off on tangents with one's writing. Maybe, one day, if Stephen King follows their advice, he might be able to catch a break.
I propose. He prepares. But my phonecalls are never phased out by him. It isn't the respect between an uncle and his desisting nephew. It's the tremors of shock from a fulfilling surprise. My nephew remembers my telephone number. It's your turn, King, me!
Most writers are lousy salesmen. The process is usually challenging, and certainly hard on the eyes and family life; but it's the challenge to produce the very best that you can that makes it all worthwhile. After you have finally written 'The End', as long as the bills are paid, you can get on with the next challenge. What happens to the book or story after that is history.
I should be doing anatomy homework, instead I'm watching Pennywise cutting up bodies. Same thing, right? Anywhoot. My opinion doesn't really matter but there's very little I liked about Mr. King. His politics are vile and detrimental to our state's citizens. Trying to read IT, I almost scheduled a visit with my doctor for adderall because he's all over the place. Great story line. I loved the movies. They flow. There is too much spontaneous rhetoric that doesn't lead the story. It reminds me of a fresh cigarette extinguished and left into a pint of beer; pointless, foul, and wasteful. Misery and the Dark Tower wasn't presented in this manner. It's a shame because the stories like IT are very good. Just disorganized to the point of giving up on them. Seeing him represent real Mainers in IT 2 was awesome. He did a WICKED good job. Loved the dickering.
I’ve had people ask me how I can’t know where the story is going if I’m writing the story? I always laugh a bit when I hear this because I know they haven’t written much fiction.
@@TimMcGames The characters tell you where they're going and you can't be sure until they're ready to tell you. Songwriting works that way for me. Stephen King said writing a novel is a form of excavation: When he starts the book he's at the beginning of the dig and doesn't know what's going to come out of the ground before he's through.
@@yessir.7937 He's just talking about how it works for him. He acknowledged in the video that good work has been done by writers who work from an outline, only saying that it doesn't work for him. And he should know. When I start writing a song I have to start with a single line or at most a verse and then gradually find out if I'm starting at the beginning or if something had to have happened before that point in the song, and I never know what the end will be till I'm there or nearly there.
My biggest problem as a writer is that I focus too much on the end product and don't let myself enjoy the discovery of the story as I'm writing it. I really love the way he talks about his process here.
I've watched so many of these interviews with Stephen King, and some of them several times over, because I just love to hear him talking about the writing process and where it takes him and how it moves him,etc. It just inspires me with my own writing.
I absolutely love the idea of writing like this. I'm just getting into writing short stories myself and I always thought that good novel writers sat down and wrote out an entire plot outline, start to finish, like an essay. I thought they developed characters first, the whole storyline, with the end already in mind, and then just filled in the details. That idea never, ever appealed to me, because it puts you in a box to stick with the outline. But once I discovered that many novelists and short-story writers just start with an idea - a subject - and then just let it flow out and see where it leads, I was immediately drawn to it. It's like the story is already inside of you, a part of you, and as Mr. King just put it, you are just the secretary taking down the information. Once it's finished, it's dead skin. It's a part of you that has shed itself out of your being, out of your mind. That's an awesome way of looking at writing stories!
In classes I've taken they've taught outlining. I'd have half the story written in the outline by the time I was done. Outlines help keep me on track, but getting too concerned about it has kind of killed me. I used to, and am trying to again, think of myself as a vessel for the characters. They are living things, I am the medium their story comes through. ... It's why I get really mad at bad fanfic writers who pair characters with characters they wouldn't be with, or make them do things they wouldn't do just because it gets their motor running. As a writer, you serve the CHARACTERS, the characters do not serve you.
During puberty, I survived thanks to your books, Mr. King. I read "It" three times. And each time it was different and deeper. There is a dark side. In your books, I have seen that, although gloomy and nightmarish, these places can be very useful. As I said, I survived with your books. Thanks!
My hero!! One of the Greatest and most Compelling American writers of the past four decades. His writing skills are amazing, sharp and riveting, and few writers who've established themselves and blossomed since the early 19th century could ever lay claim to possessing such a vast, intricate, brilliant and spellbinding imagination as Mr. King does, seemingly inexhaustible, prodigious and awesome as it is. Legendary! Stephen King is supernatural (in the best way possible)!
I know this will sound weird to some people and to some they will sadly know where I'm coming from. Stephen King saved my sanity as a teenager. When i read his books i could leave my horrible home life for a few chapters at a time. If I'm honest more than a few chapters at a time. But i digress. When people talk about his drug/alcohol abuse. He's human. Shit happens. Mr. King is the one who told us He had a problem. He's overcome His addictions and is a better man for it. Also from what i see and hear His kids are well adjusted human beings. Be like Stephen King!
Stephen King is one weird but very creative dude. He loves Maine as many people and writers do. I guess it's the privacy they seek which helps their creativity come to the surface...interesting interview...
Love that image of the bonfire. That's what is happening as my co-writer and I work on our novel. Someone appears and we are just shocked and startled. It's really the most fun when that happens.
So accurate the way he talks about the journey of creating the story being far more fun than the ending or having the finished product. I totally understand! I'm the same. Its like a ball game-- the experience of the build ups, the down moments, the uncertainty-- that's the best part!
To me when I write, it's like I'm being sucked into their world hoping to do it justice. My best analogy is that writing is like taking a blank canvas after seeing another universe, hoping to do that universe justice with the small amount of tools that you have. If done right, the painting after can draw more people into it.
The Shining is his best work, but when I was reading "Cujo" some scenes are so stretched out and milked to death, I swear he was going only for the word count. I think he's process is scenes which is very plain to see because some parts of the book are exciting and other parts are extremely boring. Nabokov had a similar approach, he'd write scenes on index cards, and when you read his books, same thing, some parts are so boring and then a flash of brilliance....
This reminds me of one of his lines from It. I don’t have the exact quote with me, but there’s one part where this character is telling a really long story about something that happened to him, and the character that is listening to him says, Sometimes it’s not about the story, but about the voice of the person telling the story. I definitely feel this with King. His endings are sometimes weak and he says it here that it’s not about the finished product but about the journey. I just love King’s writing voice.
I wonder if this is why alot of the endings to his books seem to be sub par. It might benefit him to pay a little more attention to how the story finishes. I'm not bad mouthing him, just curious if there's a correlation.
This is exactly how I always felt about writing, but since college I think I'm stuck thinking too much and I can't get any thing to flow. I honestly hoped King would have a process that gets him going! I'm trying to relearn how to tell MYSELF a story. Anybody still floating around this video do an MFA? Like I said, I'm stuck thinking too much and I'm worried a grad degree in writing would just worsen the problem.
The fact that King doesn't plan his books is, at least to me, very obvious in his endings. Every book of his that I have read is absolutely brilliant until the end, which falls apart and often makes little sense in the context of the rest of the story. His work is great, but he would benefit from some planning. Every ending has left me saying "Is that it?"
I often feel that way, too. I think maybe he'd be able to counteract this a little better if he scaled back his output, a bit. Even as he's gotten older he still publishes a crazy amount of books. Maybe if he took more time to re-write and re-think things, instead of moving onto the next project, he'd be able to keep writing without a plan while also crafting endings that satisfy the story.
The way a story transforms during the writing process is like an alchemy of sorts. It's absolutely magical when things flow into a life of their own and everything in the story just falls into place.
King is one fascinating person. I'd like to experience just once - to be one of his characters in his novella mind - observing him from inside his brain - tucked quietly in a corner waiting for my turn to be called - when suddenly I'm sprung into action - playing out the fantastic things he have he do. Please let it be a romantic sequence of pages. (we all aspire - but fall short)
desert before dinner.....as John Lennon sang --whatever gets you through the night. Whose to say that the way things are done in society is the right way
Stephen King is one of the authors whom i always think about fondly for they hold a solid place on a person like me. It is important for a writer at the verge of creating stories to look upon authors who have real enthusiasm for stories, who are lover of stories. It is great listening Stephen King talk about stories and process of creating them. It is as interesting as his books. I learned many things from bestselling authors and Stephen King is one of them
Stephen king you have inspired me to become a bookrighter when I'm the age you are the best person I've heard of your a special person and remember that
When I wrote my first novel I had the summary planned out even the ending but when I started writing the story ended up diffirent than what I have naturally planned it turned out better. For me as a new beginning novelist I have a hungry to write it inside of me all the stories wanting to come out.
I've never wrote a novel but I've always had a knack for writing and creativity, I always feel the desire to put my thoughts on to paper but worried it would be incoherent. How do you maintain consistency whilst working like this?
@@DeadlyDan I agree with Mister King if a story keeps bothering you and wont leave you alone its aching to be put on paper. My first books weren't perfect. But I learned more by writing and reading alot. My advise is find your voice. You sound like you know alot. That's very good. I once wrote a books called 365 inspirational thoughts where I created my own philosophical and psychological proverbs. What ever you've got to say just write it down being a writer or author is like having super powers once it's out you'll love it. My advise is write what you can I usually write 3 or 4 pages a day. It just depends on where my story takes me. You can do it. You have to believe in yourself. Plus on top of that I'm bipolar and an introvert I have lots of stories and ideas to tell. But any one can become a writer. What I also do is I take notes but I usually remember them.
My first novel was a joke to intelligence agencies. I get myself in trouble when I think about that stuff. Shut the thoughts up. It's none of my business what they're doing. I'll probably go back on myself over that but for now... People in Australia like my joke of a novel. G was difficult to edit because it's one of my first books. I could only do so much to it. I threw it out there. Let's see if it sinks or swims. I might go back to H and make it a real novel. I use outlines and notes, but I have to. I've done freestyle, but I'm not good at it like Mr. King here.
How cool is it to be able to say "I have a friend...his name is John Irving."? I can't imagine hanging out with King and Irving for a dinner. That would blow my mind.
If you ever meet anyone famous, don't EVER act like a big fan. It's why they come into back doors and leave on overhead catwalks and such. You say, I like your work or nothing if you don't. Then talk about the weather and such.
He explains his writing process as I do! Just go with the flow of the story! When I kill off a character, I sit in my chair and freak out to myself, wondering why the hell so and so just died!
I wrote like that for sooo long but then I actively wanted to improve myself and started to outline- it kills all the fun. Now I´m struggling to get back to free flowing without my perfectionism paralysing me.
struggling... perfection... paralyzing... blah-blah-blah... Do a favor - do not outline yourself. Defining your artistry is a way to fix it in place and cut off all the fun, whatever method you try. And to force your stream - teach yourself not to regret BEFORE you do your first try on some idea. You'll have all the time on Earth to regret after, so be careless. You can trash it anyway, if it deserves. But now you shall write blindly, white-on-white in MS Word, or by hand on a small A5 papers, or do other trick you, as writer, can figure out on your own. Improving yourself is never a target, it's a result of the same work, day after day. So you'd better start it.
I love your work ethic and how I've heard you write 2,000 words a day and how you are probably okay with all mankind doing this too. I pray for you a great eternity.
I'd just add that it matters where you set the first flame. You can fall in love with a cup of coffee or a dog and derive the funniest demons. Know how your mind works. Your inner landscape doesnt tell the story but it dictates but the choices your character makes. Whenever you feel like youre characters are trapped in your way of thinking, make them remember their surroundings.
I should be writing; instead I'm watching this...
Great interviews can be considered research. It's not like you are playing Candy Crush. ;)
Shawn Greyling me right now lol
Shawn Greyling same
Same here =/
Me too. Better than another parrot watching binge I guess.
I really like Stephen King, as a person. Not overly serious. And its nice to hear writers say they enjoy the process, rather than how excruciating it can be, which I'm sure it is.
+Dominic M It is the best damn thing in the world!
Dominic M Writing a novel is like a bout with some terrible illness
Dominic M It’s all the good and all the bad all rolled into one.
For me it's an assured escape.
@@thompsonlives5649 George Orwell
I'm more surprised than anyone when I go back and read what I've written 😆 it's like an out of body experience ❤
I have the same feeling, I’m always surprised at what I’ve written. Thanks for posting your comment and the reinforcement.
Because it's surprisingly good as though a professional wrote it, or because it's horrid and "Why did I ever think I could write?"
I just read my book after setting it down a year. It was captivating. I cried all through it. I used those exact words to describe. Out of body experience.
He's such a great guy. I learned so much when I read his great book, On Writing. Great guy, great writer...
Pet Semetary is one of the scariest damned things I've ever read, getting ready to read it again for probably the 30th time.
Get ready for nightmares galore!
I always found that book to be more depressing than outright scary. "It" however... Holy crap.
Especially if as follow-up after 1,5 movie adaptation. First the old one, next the new one - and then you shovel into pit of IT with original book, when everything starts to make sense. May worth a try.
Pet Sematary was almost my favorite King book until I read It for the second time back in 2014. Pet Sematary's ending is spectacular and chilling in its simplicity.
I like the dark tower
Misery
The Bachman books
Rage
Steve kings awesome
I'm really glad he found what works for him but it's not a good idea to emulate his style. He's a very unique and special writer.
You can emulate his technique without emulating his style.
I loved Stephen King's books for a while but nowadays, among others, I much prefer John Irving. I very much like his approach of finding the last sentence first which he explained thusly: He wants to take the reader on an emotional journey and he needs to make sure it's worth it. So he needs to know first where the journey will end. Then he develops the whole story to culminate in this sentence. I find that amazing. That way the sentence is really loaded with emotion once you get to it because Irving always describes the whole life of the protagonist up to that point and all the important twists and turns and the relationships, what was gained and what was lost along the way. It is just awesome.
Stephen King has got to be one of the coolest cats on the planet❗One of the greatest writers ever❗❗❗
It's interesting how King describes his process with the red string in the hole in the floor. It reminds me a lot of how David Lynch describes his process which is that he is in one room and in the other room the painting/film/composition is complete and he continues to get little pieces of the puzzle during the process.
I have to write more
same
Same.
I love his awesome jet black Velcro shoes.
Ozwald Zissou De-e-ecent!
Bangor Daily News' camera crew needs to work on camera angles.
The campfire analogy is so good.
Sthephen king you are my favorite author and I'm only 9 and teachers say I should not read your books and is it true that you got writers block why writing it I loved the remake of the old one I've seen the old one about 4 times and the 2017 one 2 times love your books
Everybody else on UA-cam seems to be saying that one should have an outline, and stick to that, and not go off on tangents with one's writing. Maybe, one day, if Stephen King follows their advice, he might be able to catch a break.
It's exactly the same as composing, I find.
I love this man ♥️
i like him so damn much!
We edit our own material, this Uncle and I.
This is exactly my process. :)
Planning them is better imo. It brings more personality to the story.
I get it.
That's why I don't even start.
My idol
Sometime I write and word just come out like I got no control of it !
Intelligence comes in many packages. Can't judge a book by its cover there for there is no prejudices in tha world.
Curious: why is his shirt at least a size too big...?
I propose. He prepares. But my phonecalls are never phased out by him. It isn't the respect between an uncle and his desisting nephew. It's the tremors of shock from a fulfilling surprise. My nephew remembers my telephone number.
It's your turn, King, me!
Most writers are lousy salesmen. The process is usually challenging, and certainly hard on the eyes and family life; but it's the challenge to produce the very best that you can that makes it all worthwhile. After you have finally written 'The End', as long as the bills are paid, you can get on with the next challenge. What happens to the book or story after that is history.
Which novel is he talking about??? Where’s the damn introduction?
Thank-You Stephen.....
SK is brilliant, and does his thing, but I’ve watched many interviews and you get grasp. SK was drunk here
Has Mr King thought about writing about zombies? And the undead?
"Cell" by Stephen King
also Pet Sematary
and the short story "Home Delivery" :)
All so speaketh the thunderer
Is he um, wearing velcro shoes?
When you get to his point of success in life, comfort and ease of use trump any potential loss of style points.
"I tweet breathless nonsense for hours a day. Its practise or whatever."
An official creepologist. And that's not a compliment.
I should be doing anatomy homework, instead I'm watching Pennywise cutting up bodies. Same thing, right? Anywhoot. My opinion doesn't really matter but there's very little I liked about Mr. King. His politics are vile and detrimental to our state's citizens. Trying to read IT, I almost scheduled a visit with my doctor for adderall because he's all over the place. Great story line. I loved the movies. They flow. There is too much spontaneous rhetoric that doesn't lead the story. It reminds me of a fresh cigarette extinguished and left into a pint of beer; pointless, foul, and wasteful. Misery and the Dark Tower wasn't presented in this manner. It's a shame because the stories like IT are very good. Just disorganized to the point of giving up on them. Seeing him represent real Mainers in IT 2 was awesome. He did a WICKED good job. Loved the dickering.
That’s why most of his stories turn out to be all over the place.
Bla
Something about the shape of his face and the knowledge of his career give off an air of insanity...
f alien
He's absolutely right: your story often gets a life of its own.
Especially when you make it up as it goes along👈😆, oh god I'm a terrible writer
I’ve had people ask me how I can’t know where the story is going if I’m writing the story? I always laugh a bit when I hear this because I know they haven’t written much fiction.
Varies vastly from writer to writer. Plenty of writers who outline their stories before they start.
@@TimMcGames The characters tell you where they're going and you can't be sure until they're ready to tell you. Songwriting works that way for me. Stephen King said writing a novel is a form of excavation: When he starts the book he's at the beginning of the dig and doesn't know what's going to come out of the ground before he's through.
@@yessir.7937 He's just talking about how it works for him. He acknowledged in the video that good work has been done by writers who work from an outline, only saying that it doesn't work for him. And he should know. When I start writing a song I have to start with a single line or at most a verse and then gradually find out if I'm starting at the beginning or if something had to have happened before that point in the song, and I never know what the end will be till I'm there or nearly there.
My biggest problem as a writer is that I focus too much on the end product and don't let myself enjoy the discovery of the story as I'm writing it. I really love the way he talks about his process here.
While agathie Christie planned her books meticulously
I should be writing too; instead of watching this...
I've watched so many of these interviews with Stephen King, and some of them several times over, because I just love to hear him talking about the writing process and where it takes him and how it moves him,etc. It just inspires me with my own writing.
I absolutely love the idea of writing like this. I'm just getting into writing short stories myself and I always thought that good novel writers sat down and wrote out an entire plot outline, start to finish, like an essay. I thought they developed characters first, the whole storyline, with the end already in mind, and then just filled in the details. That idea never, ever appealed to me, because it puts you in a box to stick with the outline. But once I discovered that many novelists and short-story writers just start with an idea - a subject - and then just let it flow out and see where it leads, I was immediately drawn to it. It's like the story is already inside of you, a part of you, and as Mr. King just put it, you are just the secretary taking down the information. Once it's finished, it's dead skin. It's a part of you that has shed itself out of your being, out of your mind. That's an awesome way of looking at writing stories!
It's Me Some writers plan, some don't. Some are smack in the middle. Writers are individuals in every way. Go for it and have a great time!
In classes I've taken they've taught outlining. I'd have half the story written in the outline by the time I was done. Outlines help keep me on track, but getting too concerned about it has kind of killed me. I used to, and am trying to again, think of myself as a vessel for the characters. They are living things, I am the medium their story comes through. ... It's why I get really mad at bad fanfic writers who pair characters with characters they wouldn't be with, or make them do things they wouldn't do just because it gets their motor running. As a writer, you serve the CHARACTERS, the characters do not serve you.
* fanfic-maker
you are welcome
Thank you Stephen King for your contribution to the horror genre!
To novel writing*
Not just horror, he has done some of the best non-horror works.
I could listen to him talk for hours
Same.
Genius is as genius does.
During puberty, I survived thanks to your books, Mr. King. I read "It" three times. And each time it was different and deeper. There is a dark side. In your books, I have seen that, although gloomy and nightmarish, these places can be very useful. As I said, I survived with your books. Thanks!
I'm an illustrator and I can find inspiration from this. I should be drawing. Anyone involved in the arts can be inspired from this video.
rockabillylaker I'm an illustrator too!! I know what you mean, this process can be applied to drawing as well.
Illustrate books? How started?
My hero!! One of the Greatest and most Compelling American writers of the past four decades. His writing skills are amazing, sharp and riveting, and few writers who've established themselves and blossomed since the early 19th century could ever lay claim to possessing such a vast, intricate, brilliant and spellbinding imagination as Mr. King does, seemingly inexhaustible, prodigious and awesome as it is. Legendary! Stephen King is supernatural (in the best way possible)!
You should check out some of Clive Barker's work; the books of blood series is amazing.
Four Decades?
ALL TIME dude
He really is the best!☺
There's a lot of mysticism in this thoughts.
I know this will sound weird to some people and to some they will sadly know where I'm coming from. Stephen King saved my sanity as a teenager. When i read his books i could leave my horrible home life for a few chapters at a time. If I'm honest more than a few chapters at a time. But i digress. When people talk about his drug/alcohol abuse. He's human. Shit happens. Mr. King is the one who told us He had a problem. He's overcome His addictions and is a better man for it. Also from what i see and hear His kids are well adjusted human beings. Be like Stephen King!
Stephen King is one weird but very creative dude. He loves Maine as many people and writers do. I guess it's the privacy they seek which helps their creativity come to the surface...interesting interview...
Love that image of the bonfire. That's what is happening as my co-writer and I work on our novel. Someone appears and we are just shocked and startled. It's really the most fun when that happens.
I'm going to write horror books. I'm 14. BTW Stephen king is awesome!!!!
So accurate the way he talks about the journey of creating the story being far more fun than the ending or having the finished product. I totally understand! I'm the same. Its like a ball game-- the experience of the build ups, the down moments, the uncertainty-- that's the best part!
To me when I write, it's like I'm being sucked into their world hoping to do it justice. My best analogy is that writing is like taking a blank canvas after seeing another universe, hoping to do that universe justice with the small amount of tools that you have. If done right, the painting after can draw more people into it.
The Shining is his best work, but when I was reading "Cujo" some scenes are so stretched out and milked to death, I swear he was going only for the word count. I think he's process is scenes which is very plain to see because some parts of the book are exciting and other parts are extremely boring. Nabokov had a similar approach, he'd write scenes on index cards, and when you read his books, same thing, some parts are so boring and then a flash of brilliance....
This reminds me of one of his lines from It. I don’t have the exact quote with me, but there’s one part where this character is telling a really long story about something that happened to him, and the character that is listening to him says, Sometimes it’s not about the story, but about the voice of the person telling the story. I definitely feel this with King. His endings are sometimes weak and he says it here that it’s not about the finished product but about the journey. I just love King’s writing voice.
I think he looks great. Interesting chat on book writing.
I wonder if this is why alot of the endings to his books seem to be sub par. It might benefit him to pay a little more attention to how the story finishes. I'm not bad mouthing him, just curious if there's a correlation.
I’ve read a lot of his books, some of the endings I love, some were “‘meh” and that could possibly why.
I like the "little red thread" analogy.
Great advice from one of the best! Thanks for the upload.
This is exactly how I always felt about writing, but since college I think I'm stuck thinking too much and I can't get any thing to flow. I honestly hoped King would have a process that gets him going! I'm trying to relearn how to tell MYSELF a story.
Anybody still floating around this video do an MFA? Like I said, I'm stuck thinking too much and I'm worried a grad degree in writing would just worsen the problem.
The fact that King doesn't plan his books is, at least to me, very obvious in his endings. Every book of his that I have read is absolutely brilliant until the end, which falls apart and often makes little sense in the context of the rest of the story. His work is great, but he would benefit from some planning. Every ending has left me saying "Is that it?"
I often feel that way, too. I think maybe he'd be able to counteract this a little better if he scaled back his output, a bit. Even as he's gotten older he still publishes a crazy amount of books. Maybe if he took more time to re-write and re-think things, instead of moving onto the next project, he'd be able to keep writing without a plan while also crafting endings that satisfy the story.
I agree but also have to suggest that maybe the guy has his own style. He likes to flow right up until his own custom conclusion
I thought 11.22.63 was pretty good as far as endings go
His short stories are blooming terrible for this
Agreed, one exception however is "The dark tower"-series.
no matter how much money this guy makes, he always looks like a struggling writer
The way a story transforms during the writing process is like an alchemy of sorts.
It's absolutely magical when things flow into a life of their own and everything in the story just falls into place.
1408 - good movie.
Ethan A Wish there was a sequel
Anton Chigurh it's just an evil fucking room though
AttackOnLui great ideas are often simple
King is one fascinating person. I'd like to experience just once - to be one of his characters in his novella mind - observing him from inside his brain - tucked quietly in a corner waiting for my turn to be called - when suddenly I'm sprung into action - playing out the fantastic things he have he do. Please let it be a romantic sequence of pages.
(we all aspire - but fall short)
You’d think ol’ Stevie’d be aware by now that he’s dropped that Irving anecdote into almost every interview & speaking engagement since ‘82. 🥱
What is the scariest thing in the world
Answer:
His brain
Comes across as nice man which is quite ironic when you look at the nature of his writing.
desert before dinner.....as John Lennon sang --whatever gets you through the night.
Whose to say that the way things are done in society is the right way
I love that man. A constant voice in my life
To me it feels like every word which comes out of his mouth has a tale to tell
Stephen King is one of the authors whom i always think about fondly for they hold a solid place on a person like me. It is important for a writer at the verge of creating stories to look upon authors who have real enthusiasm for stories, who are lover of stories.
It is great listening Stephen King talk about stories and process of creating them. It is as interesting as his books. I learned many things from bestselling authors and Stephen King is one of them
Stephen king you have inspired me to become a bookrighter when I'm the age you are the best person I've heard of your a special person and remember that
When I wrote my first novel I had the summary planned out even the ending but when I started writing the story ended up diffirent than what I have naturally planned it turned out better. For me as a new beginning novelist I have a hungry to write it inside of me all the stories wanting to come out.
I've never wrote a novel but I've always had a knack for writing and creativity, I always feel the desire to put my thoughts on to paper but worried it would be incoherent. How do you maintain consistency whilst working like this?
@@DeadlyDan I agree with Mister King if a story keeps bothering you and wont leave you alone its aching to be put on paper. My first books weren't perfect. But I learned more by writing and reading alot. My advise is find your voice. You sound like you know alot. That's very good. I once wrote a books called 365 inspirational thoughts where I created my own philosophical and psychological proverbs. What ever you've got to say just write it down being a writer or author is like having super powers once it's out you'll love it. My advise is write what you can I usually write 3 or 4 pages a day. It just depends on where my story takes me. You can do it. You have to believe in yourself. Plus on top of that I'm bipolar and an introvert I have lots of stories and ideas to tell. But any one can become a writer. What I also do is I take notes but I usually remember them.
My first novel was a joke to intelligence agencies. I get myself in trouble when I think about that stuff. Shut the thoughts up. It's none of my business what they're doing. I'll probably go back on myself over that but for now... People in Australia like my joke of a novel. G was difficult to edit because it's one of my first books. I could only do so much to it. I threw it out there. Let's see if it sinks or swims. I might go back to H and make it a real novel. I use outlines and notes, but I have to. I've done freestyle, but I'm not good at it like Mr. King here.
Process, not goal. Precisely. Follow the people and write down what they do, say, and experience.
you have a lot of learning to do. so if you're not writing, you should be reading or listening and taking some fundamentals in about the art.
How cool is it to be able to say "I have a friend...his name is John Irving."? I can't imagine hanging out with King and Irving for a dinner. That would blow my mind.
If you ever meet anyone famous, don't EVER act like a big fan. It's why they come into back doors and leave on overhead catwalks and such. You say, I like your work or nothing if you don't. Then talk about the weather and such.
They have the hot sex in a tub of cocaine!!!
He explains his writing process as I do! Just go with the flow of the story! When I kill off a character, I sit in my chair and freak out to myself, wondering why the hell so and so just died!
I wrote like that for sooo long but then I actively wanted to improve myself and started to outline- it kills all the fun. Now I´m struggling to get back to free flowing without my perfectionism paralysing me.
struggling... perfection... paralyzing... blah-blah-blah...
Do a favor - do not outline yourself. Defining your artistry is a way to fix it in place and cut off all the fun, whatever method you try.
And to force your stream - teach yourself not to regret BEFORE you do your first try on some idea. You'll have all the time on Earth to regret after, so be careless. You can trash it anyway, if it deserves. But now you shall write blindly, white-on-white in MS Word, or by hand on a small A5 papers, or do other trick you, as writer, can figure out on your own.
Improving yourself is never a target, it's a result of the same work, day after day.
So you'd better start it.
so cool, such a cool guy. excellent writer.
I just bought the Thomas WIlliams book! Cant' wait for it to come!
I love your work ethic and how I've heard you write 2,000 words a day and how you are probably okay with all mankind doing this too. I pray for you a great eternity.
Wow! To be so brilliant and so Nice !
I'd just add that it matters where you set the first flame. You can fall in love with a cup of coffee or a dog and derive the funniest demons. Know how your mind works. Your inner landscape doesnt tell the story but it dictates but the choices your character makes. Whenever you feel like youre characters are trapped in your way of thinking, make them remember their surroundings.
Joe Rogan brought me here, King is legend! According to Joe Rogan, King was drunk and high whilst writing his best sellers.
This is true. King himself will tell you he has no memory of writing his book Cujo because of the substances he was on while writing it
@@stephengrant4841 well gotta give him credit for writing a great novel whilst drug and high....impressive.
The comparison with the fire camp is great! I love it.
He just loves to read and write period
They say the best writers, are the advid reader's...
That last bit about being a secretary is so right.
white socks and black shoes, LOL
Zinger sit and be more humble
just taking stuff down
This helps
I love the campfire analogy.
Can we zoom in a little closer on his face?
Does everyone have a book in them then?