Saturday, January 14, 2006
Love Ya, Mr. King

I am currently listening to Stephen King’s On Writing in an audiobook version, and I have to say it’s fabulous. I’ve had it loaded on my iPod for months and was somehow resisting it--I don’t know why.
It’s interesting to hear him read, and the personal history is fascinating. I also love his analogy about stories starting with a “fossil” of a situation that can be gradually excavated to reveal an outcome that the writer may not have entirely conceived at the beginning.
--Melanie