If I could speak to Stephen King right now I would say, “Your books make me want to edit my work, because although I will likely never be, I want to be as good as you.”
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UPDATED March 4th/15
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The rules that I’ve made for myself (but don’t always follow) for “One-Liner Wednesday” are:
1. Make it one sentence.
2. Make it either funny or inspirational.
Have fun!
March 19, 2015 at 1:58 am
Don’t want to be as good as StephenKing, want to be as good as LindaGHill. If everyone wanted to be as good as Stephen King then we would only need one author, Stephen King. Stay unique, with your own already very good voice.
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March 20, 2015 at 8:09 pm
Thank you very much for your encouragement. 🙂 We shall see if I’m good enough, I suppose.
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March 18, 2015 at 5:17 pm
I better start editing mine because I want to be as good as him…
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March 20, 2015 at 8:09 pm
Takes a lot of work!
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March 18, 2015 at 4:59 pm
Looks like we both had writing topics on our brains today. Great minds. 🙂
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March 20, 2015 at 8:10 pm
Yep. 🙂 Great minds indeed.
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March 18, 2015 at 4:32 pm
Okay Linda, I did it! I had no idea what to do when you invited me to participate in your one-liner Wednesday. 101 blogging assignment was to find an event. I thought of you instantly. I am so happy to know what an event is now…excuse my rambling LOL
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March 20, 2015 at 8:13 pm
That’s great, Carol! I look forward to reading your post! 😀
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March 18, 2015 at 3:56 pm
I know what you mean, so I recently started reading his book “On Writing” — eager to learn more about how he does what he does!
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March 20, 2015 at 8:14 pm
On Writing is an excellent guide. It’s my go-to book when I have a question about what I’m doing.
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March 18, 2015 at 12:48 pm
This is a bit OT, but I took some pix with my vita of the stupid construction on Davis and Main Street. —> https://gh0stpuppetsphotos.wordpress.com/
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March 18, 2015 at 1:19 pm
Cool! I’ll have a look – thanks!! 😀
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March 18, 2015 at 12:08 pm
One of the things I am working on now is developing my poetry editing skills. Not quite like Stephen King or your prose editing, but still challenging for me.
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March 18, 2015 at 3:49 pm
Ugh, editing poetry is extremely difficult for me. Usually what you see is pretty much what you get when you read mine. 😛 All the power to you my friend!
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March 18, 2015 at 8:12 am
Just don’t edit your work on Stream of Consciousness Saturday.
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March 18, 2015 at 3:48 pm
Exactly!
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March 18, 2015 at 8:09 am
I always say that I am not disciplined in my writing! YOu are very disciplined and I love that. I myself would love to be as good as John Grisham!!
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March 18, 2015 at 3:47 pm
It’s wonderful to have someone to emulate, isn’t it? 🙂
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March 18, 2015 at 7:39 am
I love Stephen King too!!
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March 18, 2015 at 3:47 pm
He’s superb at what he does. So many people don’t realize it; those who refuse to read his work because of the genre of most of his books don’t know what they’re missing!
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March 18, 2015 at 4:38 pm
They’re also missing out because they tend to assume that everything he writes is horror, which it’s not. 11/22/63 is an amazing love story/alternate history tale, Eyes of the Dragon and Dark Tower are fantasy, and so on.
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March 20, 2015 at 8:12 pm
I LOVED 11/22/63. It’s true, not everything he writes is horror. I just finished Revival – it’s not really horror either. At least I didn’t think so.
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March 20, 2015 at 11:53 pm
I really want to check out Revival. I’m hoping it will clear the bad taste of Dr. Sleep out of my mouth. Though I’m rather worried it’s going to be a Frankenstein metaphor, from some of the descriptions I’ve heard..
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March 21, 2015 at 12:11 am
Ha! Well, yeah. But it’s still worth the read. Was Dr. Sleep really that bad? I was going to buy it next… I heard Under the Dome was pretty awful.
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March 21, 2015 at 12:49 am
I thought Under the Dome was actually pretty good, personally. King’s at his best when he’s painting incestuous small-town politics and the “monsters” are Kiwanis nutjobs. The ending can take a hike, but overall I enjoyed it.
Dr. Sleep… I may not be the best judge of. I was never heavily invested in The Shining to start with, so I may not be the target audience there. But seeing Danny essentially become his father than attempt to redeem himself, while interesting, just didn’t connect with me. The ultra-saccharine ending and the retcons of certain aspects of Jack’s character when combined with the seemingly arbitrary ties to the Overlook just didn’t do anything for me.
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March 21, 2015 at 1:01 am
Ah, well, SK’s endings always did suck a little, didn’t they? He actually admitted that his son helped him with the end of 11/22/63… which is probably why it didn’t. But we still keep coming back.
Thanks for the reviews, Kaine. I’ll probably buy them both. I always do anyway. 😛
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March 21, 2015 at 1:09 am
Eh. He has hits and misses. 11/22/63 is a hit, of course, but I’m one of a select group who enjoyed how Dark Tower ended… but a lot of times he does seem to reach for the “Ummm. out of ideas. Rocks fall, all die!” option. XD Perhaps I’m just more forgiving than most.
Hope you enjoy them when you get to them! XD You’ll have to let us know how it goes…
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March 21, 2015 at 1:15 am
If we didn’t forgive him we’d never read him, would we? It’s like childbirth – no one would have siblings if women didn’t forget, at least a little, the end of a pregnancy. 😛
I shall. 🙂 Thanks!
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