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Old 12-26-2013, 07:20 AM   #16
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I swear I read a post in a forum someplace, (not here) where the person said they didn't enjoy reading, but they'd really like to write a novel. So tell me, could Mr. King have gotten it wrong?
No, Stephen King is a not wrong, but there are variations in the species. So the comment Mr. King makes is true in general case, but there will always be some outliers.

That being said - I suspect the writing of those that are not readers is weaker than it could be.
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Old 12-26-2013, 07:25 AM   #17
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And the chances are that neither will you ever read a novel written by someone who doesn't like to read. (I had to re-read this sentence three times to see if it made sense... Maybe I should be a novelist. I've still got a few years.)


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I swear I read a post in a forum someplace, (not here) where the person said they didn't enjoy reading, but they'd really like to write a novel. So tell me, could Mr. King have gotten it wrong?
I wonder if the key there is the future tense, they only think they'd like to write one. They may have a different opinion when they actually sit down to it. Writing a novel a thing of imagination and of words, and (I believe) you have to be enthusiastic about both to make it work. If you're enthusiastic about both then you will read. And, on top of that, reading is the way you learn what works, what doesn't, and how to express yourself effectively and appropriately for the genre. Writing includes reading, if don't enjoy reading how are you going to assess what you've written? Anything that I write that doesn't work for me when I read it is an immediate fail, it doesn't get passed on to anyone else - so I have to be able to enjoy reading, it's a prerequisite for how I work.

Of course VydorScope could be right, perhaps there are some that break the general rule, but it's a truly alien thought to me.
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Old 12-26-2013, 08:27 AM   #19
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Of course VydorScope could be right, perhaps there are some that break the general rule, but it's a truly alien thought to me.

My degree in statistics requires me to accept the reality of outliers
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And the chances are that neither will you ever read a novel written by someone who doesn't like to read. (I had to re-read this sentence three times to see if it made sense... Maybe I should be a novelist. I've still got a few years.)
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I've been told by so many people that I ought to write my autobiography, but I just can't believe that anyone would be interested, or even pay hard-earned money to buy it. And this doesn't even address the issue of people believing it! I've lived it, and "I" don't believe most of it! I've written hundreds of magazine articles over the years, been a magazine columnist for many years, but still don't believe my writing would sell...


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I've been told by so many people that I ought to write my autobiography, but I just can't believe that anyone would be interested, or even pay hard-earned money to buy it. And this doesn't even address the issue of people believing it! I've lived it, and "I" don't believe most of it! I've written hundreds of magazine articles over the years, been a magazine columnist for many years, but still don't believe my writing would sell...


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If nothing else do it (as I did) just to get it all (or at least some of it) down in black and white for the family.....I've sold a few copies but that really isn't the reason I did it.
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Old 12-26-2013, 02:38 PM   #22
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If nothing else do it (as I did) just to get it all (or at least some of it) down in black and white for the family.....I've sold a few copies but that really isn't the reason I did it.
That's just what I was thinking. And who knows in the future when all of us are gone someone may want to research your life and having your autobiography to hand I imagine would be a great help there.
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That's just what I was thinking. And who knows in the future when all of us are gone someone may want to research your life and having your autobiography to hand I imagine would be a great help there.
...though how much of it would they be able to believe?
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...though how much of it would they be able to believe?
Well they might or might not believe the story of the rain-soaked windowpane acid being absorbed into my fingertips, making it's way up my arms to my brain and sending me on the trip of my life.
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Well they might or might not believe the story of the rain-soaked windowpane acid being absorbed into my fingertips, making it's way up my arms to my brain and sending me on the trip of my life.
Sounds like that window was a real pane kennyc.
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Well they might or might not believe the story of the rain-soaked windowpane acid being absorbed into my fingertips, making it's way up my arms to my brain and sending me on the trip of my life.
Windowpane and Blue Dot, Black Flats, Yellow Sunshine, Strawberry Fields, Purple Haze, Barrel, Peace Sign... day after day after day for months on end... Being a hippie was fun, if I remember correctly. According to people over 30 at the time, our brains should have melted and run out of our ears, and our children should have been born morons with two heads. Instead, our kids became 'straights' who graduated cum laude and are the engineers and pioneers of the new generation.

Yeah... no one would believe it.


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Windowpane and Blue Dot, Black Flats, Yellow Sunshine, Strawberry Fields, Purple Haze, Barrel, Peace Sign... day after day after day for months on end... Being a hippie was fun, if I remember correctly. According to people over 30 at the time, our brains should have melted and run out of our ears, and our children should have been born morons with two heads. Instead, our kids became 'straights' who graduated cum laude and are the engineers and pioneers of the new generation.

Yeah... no one would believe it.


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Anyone who actually "remembers" the '60s wasn't really there.
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I missed it. Wasn't born til Dec. of 1970.
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