![]() ![]() More, King began exploring how creativity impacts real life, and how life and fiction inform one another. Later fiction - especially a sequence of novels and stories beginning with Misery and including The Dark Half, "Secret Window, Secret Garden," Bag of Bones, "Umney's Last Case," among others - centered on novelists attempting to define what their work means, both to their readers and themselves. Even in this nascent stage of King's career, he is fascinated by what he does, and why he does it. In the foreword to Night Shift, King explains why he writes short stories (a sequel of sorts to this short essay appeared decades later in Everything's Eventual, in which King explains why he still writes short stories). While Carrie touched only lightly on writers (with its epistolary interruptions, some of which are purported excerpts from Sue Snell's autobiography), both 'Salem's Lot and The Shining have writers at the centers of their stories, the act of writing a method of simultaneously coping with and clarifying horrors. ![]() This slim volume tackles concerns King has been thinking about and writing about his entire career: why people write, why writing is important, how writing happens, why writing happens, what writing is. ![]() Where the Dark Tower books connect King's fictional worlds, On Writing serves as a thematic summation of King's career. On Writing, however, is arguably a more central work to King's canon - perhaps the most important book he has ever written. Characters, events, even plots resurface in the seven major Dark Tower novels, creating a masterwork that also serves as the center of King's enormous fictional universe. As the sequence of Dark Tower books progresses, King's other novels and stories are folded into the narrative, some in major ways ( Insomnia, Hearts In Atlantis), some more subtly ( Rose Madder, Bag of Bones). Part of the reason Stephen King's Dark Tower series functions as his magnum opus is because it encompasses so much of his other work. The scariest moment is always just before you start ![]()
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