Sunday, February 13, 2011

Stephen King on Writing

I know I haven't been able to write for a while, but I have been able to read. Stephen King, for the first good portion of his book, seems to be telling more about his life and how he became a writer than actually on writing. (Something I actually like) One of the most intresting stories I read so far was about one of his first attempts at publication.

It was in the 1950s and he'd only just started watching T.V. he was very fond of a magazine called Famous Monsters of Filmland who was edited by someone named Forrest J. Ackerman who later wrote his own Magazine called Spacemen he sent his story (That of which he forgot the title) to this magazine and was rejected, but Forry kept it all those years, and twenty years later when King was signing autographs in a bookstore Forry came up with the single-spaced story and asked him to sign it for him.

The first story he actually did have published was in a horror Fanzine that was made by Mike Garret, he gave it the title of In a Half-World of Terrors but King still likes his original title I was a Teen-Age Grave-Robber

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