I don't feel like writing right now, which prompts me to write about writing--mine and other people's.
A bit on Stephen King:
He writes a lot of novellas because more often than not, his rambling writing style has a way of blowing short stories way out of proportion. The scary part is that in his book, On Writing, he mentions that he writes a book, and CUTS stuff out in the re-write. He must kill several trees with each first draft. I hope he writes on the computer.
A bit on Anne Rice:
Sometimes I consider her work as over-excessive. No doubt that she researches the hell out of her books, but they're a little silly. I adore Lestat of course, and the other vampires, but I never finished Blood and Gold or Vampire Armand. I think I grew out of them, and look fondly back to those books and my high school years. After all, I would not have learned to apreciate homo-eroticism without her.
A bit on Christopher Pike:
I'd like to meet this guy, and see if he's the dirty old man (so to speak, I beleive he's in his late 40's) I have imagined him to be since I stopped reading his YA books. I re-read Master of Murder a few months ago, and am amazed that he held my attention for six years and fifty-some novels with such a writing style. Still, he remains a great story teller, and he influenced my 8th and 9th grade works very heavily.
A bit on Stephen King:
He writes a lot of novellas because more often than not, his rambling writing style has a way of blowing short stories way out of proportion. The scary part is that in his book, On Writing, he mentions that he writes a book, and CUTS stuff out in the re-write. He must kill several trees with each first draft. I hope he writes on the computer.
A bit on Anne Rice:
Sometimes I consider her work as over-excessive. No doubt that she researches the hell out of her books, but they're a little silly. I adore Lestat of course, and the other vampires, but I never finished Blood and Gold or Vampire Armand. I think I grew out of them, and look fondly back to those books and my high school years. After all, I would not have learned to apreciate homo-eroticism without her.
A bit on Christopher Pike:
I'd like to meet this guy, and see if he's the dirty old man (so to speak, I beleive he's in his late 40's) I have imagined him to be since I stopped reading his YA books. I re-read Master of Murder a few months ago, and am amazed that he held my attention for six years and fifty-some novels with such a writing style. Still, he remains a great story teller, and he influenced my 8th and 9th grade works very heavily.
Pike's good though, I loved Remember Me