I was doing some research on what other books he has, besides the typical ones (The Shining, Pet Semetary) and I didn’t realize he wrote so many other stories that I knew and didn’t realize he wrote. Like, I had seen the movie and didn’t realize it was his story. I.e. I didn’t know he wrote Shawshank Redemption, The Raft, Cujo, The Tommyknockers, and 1408.
My question: how? How does a single person churn out good story after good story?
by TheMindlessKnocking
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Cocaine
He was a born natural. So many of the great writers started young. Before he was a professionally published author, he wrote stories about other students and sold them to them at school, he wrote a couple of newsletters around that time too. He honed his craft his entire life, and had/has an insane work ethic. A lot of it is covered in his semi-autobiography *On Writing*.
I don’t know if it tells absolutely everything about his life though. I do wonder where he did get a lot of his ideas from. Yes, maybe it was drugs, but I don’t think it was just that. At least I hope not.
He’s a decent writer who took a lot of stimulants.
He just kept writing.
It’s a skill, and he put a lot of effort into developing it.