p/owj2wc

@quinn2win

3 年前

GRRM: "You know how some days everything you write is terrible, and you can't make any progress, and all your efforts end up getting thrown in the trash and you feel like a hack?"
Stephen King: "no"

Rama

@Nerdorama

3 年前

King will publish anything

連続犬

@svensational

3 年前

King has published more godawful dogshit than most of us will write and delete in our lives

連続犬

@svensational

3 年前

Stephen King has committed to the philosophy of "perfect is the enemy"

連続犬

@svensational

3 年前

of good? of done? no, perfect is just The Enemy

shivorce

@shivorce

3 年前

power move honestly

Onigashima

@quinn2win

3 年前

King writes so much

Onigashima

@quinn2win

3 年前

is it good? sometimes

hot bear summer

@hakurei

3 年前

i honestly kind of admire it bc that takes SO much confidence

hot bear summer

@hakurei

3 年前

"this is dogshit. i wrote it. please read it."

hot bear summer

@hakurei

3 年前

meanwhile i am embarrassed if i publicly write anything but perfection

Onigashima

@quinn2win

3 年前

King has said in so many words that he is fully aware that he writes hot dogs, not steaks

Onigashima

@quinn2win

3 年前

but by god he'll write a real tasty hot dog

shivorce

@shivorce

3 年前

and sometimes you just want hot dogs over steak

shivorce

@shivorce

3 年前

martin makes steaks but he overcooks them so much they may as well be inedible

fastest mario

@flare_sword

3 年前

The one thing I'll give King: unlike other hot dog vendors he doesn't ghostwrite and he's, uh

dragon time

@MadarFoxfire

3 年前

In the time it takes for Martin to cook you a steak king will make hot dogs for an entire family reunion

fastest mario

@flare_sword

3 年前

I'm more liable to not immediately hate King the way I hate some prolific 90s YA authors

fastest mario

@flare_sword

3 年前

Or at least like, if he hires a ghost writer they're damn good at impersonating his foibles

fastest mario

@flare_sword

3 年前

Unlike most romance novel churns

HotXC

@UltraDude

3 年前

his style would be hard to ghostwrite yeah

RobotApocalypse

@ninjarobotclone

3 年前

I would be genuinely shocked to learn that King has ever once hired a ghostwriter

RobotApocalypse

@ninjarobotclone

3 年前

king strikes me as the kind of writer who genuinely finds writing fun, loves his craft, and would not trade it for the world

RobotApocalypse

@ninjarobotclone

3 年前

outsourcing the process of revisions, i would absolutely believe. but the man loves to write a book.