Never outline. Just wing it, let it rest for a while (days, weeks, month) and then read it again.
That last piece of advise is also from Stephen King. I believe from the newer preface of the Dark Tower series.
To be fair he’s been sober longer since being sober to now than from being published to getting sober. But I don’t doubt that in the early years it helped write through some worse times.
Though if you read on writing the dude made a shitload of money from Carrie and I think his next novel to buy an awesome house.
Okay doubled checked 200k (what he made from Carrie) in 74 is worth about 1.3 million now (though probably over years I just did the inflation calculator from its release). Dude won the lottery on his first novel and kept writing … Well some great some not as fun, but never technically awful. Though opinions differ for sure. I always enjoyed his books overall, first novel I read over 1000 pages, and way too young IT.
Never outline. Just wing it, let it rest for a while (days, weeks, month) and then read it again. That last piece of advise is also from Stephen King. I believe from the newer preface of the Dark Tower series.
He also provided the “use cocaine” advice.
To be fair he’s been sober longer since being sober to now than from being published to getting sober. But I don’t doubt that in the early years it helped write through some worse times.
Though if you read on writing the dude made a shitload of money from Carrie and I think his next novel to buy an awesome house.
Okay doubled checked 200k (what he made from Carrie) in 74 is worth about 1.3 million now (though probably over years I just did the inflation calculator from its release). Dude won the lottery on his first novel and kept writing … Well some great some not as fun, but never technically awful. Though opinions differ for sure. I always enjoyed his books overall, first novel I read over 1000 pages, and way too young IT.
I do this when writing code too, I don’t always submit it the same day I finish sometimes I wait to come back to it and see what my dumbass wrote