 Horror/Scary: April 19, 2017 Issue [#8239] |
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This week: Stephen King Says Edited by: W.D.Wilcox  
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Stephen King Says . . .
I thought it would be intriguing to delve into the way Stephen King thinks or looks at things. So I have gathered a number of his quotes -- Easter Eggs if you will -- in the hopes that you, 'Constant Reader' may glean an understanding of what makes him tick and how he approaches writing as a whole.
 If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
 If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
 Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
 You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
 The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
 You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
 You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
 People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
 I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
 Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
 The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
 When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
 No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.
I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.
Until next time,
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LJPC - the tortoise 
Comments:
Hi Bill! Fantastic newsletter! I really enjoyed reading about how other horror authors get readers to experience fear. Personally, I do it by creating likeable characters and then showing their fear of the monster or situation. The reader should be in their heads and can't help feeling what the characters feel.
~ Laura
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Cackles:
Hey there, Bill ... love all the suggestions on how to scare your reader. You actually had me hooked with the title! *Hook* However, the "11 best horror writers in the field today," that you quoted, wrapped it up so fight-or-flight, tight! 
Thanks so much for my story's highlight -- quite honored. 
-WW *Witch*
John Yossarian 
Screams:
Wow, a lot of research went into this newsletter, and it's much appreciated too.
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