A question of color

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Blake

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I don't get if Stephen King is scared by the color yellow, then why did he write on reams of yellow paper that he said he used to do. This was my first car, I hate yellow as well, for a car at least. (or was it reams of green paper?)

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I don't get if Stephen King is scared by the color yellow, then why did he write on reams of yellow paper that he said he used to do. This was my first car, I hate yellow as well, for a car at least. (or was it reams of green paper?)

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1982 Holden(General Motors Australia) Gemini

He does mention green a lot too, "see anything green?" and the story his mother told,of the jumper,whose insides were green,in "On Writing"..etc..
 

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This is part of what keeps me coming back--the fact that Mr. King cares enough not only to finance this shindig, but is occasionally available for questions. So few writers do that. The only person I can think of off the top of my head is Michael Grant, on Twitter. A few others will occasionally interact, but this gives me happy sighs :) Thank you, Ms. Mod and Mr. King.
Meg Gardiner is fantastic. Lots of interaction.
 

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It was green.
green paper, didn't he say he got a huge pile of it for free or something. Does he still write on green paper as I've heard he's a bit superstitious that way. There was a picture of him about six months ago and he's sitting in an armchair and there's these flourescent green lights on either side of him. I think he likes the color green. Everything was green in that Creepshow 'The lonesome death of Jordy Verrill' he was real green at the end. Green pops up a lot in his stuff.
 

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This is part of what keeps me coming back--the fact that Mr. King cares enough not only to finance this shindig, but is occasionally available for questions. So few writers do that. The only person I can think of off the top of my head is Michael Grant, on Twitter. A few others will occasionally interact, but this gives me happy sighs :) Thank you, Ms. Mod and Mr. King.
What I really appreciate about sK and what I'm sure many do is how down to Earth he seems. When I look at photos of him with a bunch of his fans I can see in his face how much his CRs still mean to him. It's real easy for me to identify with things that he says; I feel I understand him like an old friend. I think that when I finally meet him it'll feel real natural.
 

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green paper, didn't he say he got a huge pile of it for free or something. Does he still write on green paper as I've heard he's a bit superstitious that way. There was a picture of him about six months ago and he's sitting in an armchair and there's these flourescent green lights on either side of him. I think he likes the color green. Everything was green in that Creepshow 'The lonesome death of Jordy Verrill' he was real green at the end. Green pops up a lot in his stuff.
Yes, that's why he was using the green paper. At the time, he had to watch his pennies so it was more for economical reasons than superstition. He gave that up long before I started working for him, though. He uses a computer for all his writing these days unless he happens to be somewhere without one of them and wants to write something down but it then gets transcribed onto the computer. Dreamcatcher was an exception as that was all handwritten and I then transcribed it so we'd have a digital version to send to the publisher.
 

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Yes, that's why he was using the green paper. At the time, he had to watch his pennies so it was more for economical reasons than superstition. He gave that up long before I started working for him, though. He uses a computer for all his writing these days unless he happens to be somewhere without one of them and wants to write something down but it then gets transcribed onto the computer. Dreamcatcher was an exception as that was all handwritten and I then transcribed it so we'd have a digital version to send to the publisher.
Hence all of the typos. :rofl: