Everything all right tonight Hammarstrom? (I'm not really seeing the above post as overly critical.)Obviously you've written about 70 books, so who are you to criticise?
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Everything all right tonight Hammarstrom? (I'm not really seeing the above post as overly critical.)Obviously you've written about 70 books, so who are you to criticise?
No I don't think so, Rrty has been a member here for years.Show pony, Impostor.
Funny, I didn't think I said anything controversial. Me? I'm in Dirty Harry mode. I thought it said that I'm allowed to talk politics and other stuff without censure, as long as I didn't annoy too many people. What's the point of having a website if all you talk banal?Everything all right tonight Hammarstrom? (I'm not really seeing the above post as overly critical.)
I was just questioning the snark, that's all. (As the post you'd commented on, didn't seem that it had warranted it, so I was confused.)Funny, I didn't think I said anything controversial. Me? I'm in Dirty Harry mode. I thought it said that I'm allowed to talk politics and other stuff without censure, as long as I didn't annoy too many people. What's the point of having a website if all you talk banal?
On the TV show "Real Time with Bill Maher" sK states that his work since becoming sober is superior to his previous work.I think some of the difference relates to being sober.
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Obviously you've written about 70 books, so who are you to criticise?
Everything all right tonight Hammarstrom? (I'm not really seeing the above post as overly critical.)
Funny, I didn't think I said anything controversial. Me? I'm in Dirty Harry mode. I thought it said that I'm allowed to talk politics and other stuff without censure, as long as I didn't annoy too many people. What's the point of having a website if all you talk banal?
Sorry Hammarstrom, but I agree with Flake. And when Flake questioned your post she wasn't censuring you, or she would've edited it. "Dirty Harry mode" needs self censure. (Of course, I'm not forgetting my own unnecessary snark posts.)I was just questioning the snark, that's all. (As the post you'd commented on, didn't seem that it had warranted it, so I was confused.)
Truth is, he let Joe and Owen write his later books while he published as Joe Hill.
Second, and I'm not sure how to put this in words, his voice has changed a bit. It's no longer what I used to think of as the arrogant-cocky-confident narrative voice -- his narration at times was so tight, so sure of itself in its metaphors and poetry and complexities that it compelled you to do nothing less than turn the page, turn the page. Don't get me wrong -- I still turn the page, I still turn the page. But it's different. I don't feel necessarily (there's that word again) like I'm on the same level with the narrator's voice, that I am a trusted friend who is being told a story out of a mutual respect. Now it feels as if the voice has gone off in a different direction and is interested in different things. I guess I've grown older; then again, maybe King's writing voice has. Who knows. That's the best I can do to explain it.
As for the actual writing in Lisey's Story--or any of his books--it's only Steve who is doing it but he does take into consideration suggestions and feedback he gets from Tabby after she's read his story, as well as any others who read them prior to publication. If he thinks their ideas make sense, then he is the one who does the rewriting. The only books or stories that have another author co-writing them are the ones that are clearly acknowledged as being co-written, i.e. the ones with Peter Straub and his son, Joe. One of his gifts as a person that translates to his skill as a writer is his observation of human behavior and being able to capture that to create characters and themes that ring true regardless of whether the character is a man or a woman. I think a lot of people believe that because he is a man he can't possibly write from the POV of a woman or a child so it must be someone else (usually Tabby is mentioned most often) writing those parts, but he is the one who does it time and again.I have thought that in Lisey's Story is Tabitha's hand...
Excellent explanation!
I have thought that in Lisey's Story is Tabitha's hand...
As for the actual writing in Lisey's Story--or any of his books--it's only Steve who is doing it but he does take into consideration suggestions and feedback he gets from Tabby after she's read his story, as well as any others who read them prior to publication. If he thinks their ideas make sense, then he is the one who does the rewriting. The only books or stories that have another author co-writing them are the ones that are clearly acknowledged as being co-written, i.e. the ones with Peter Straub and his son, Joe. One of his gifts as a person that translates to his skill as a writer is his observation of human behavior and being able to capture that to create characters and themes that ring true regardless of whether the character is a man or a woman. I think a lot of people believe that because he is a man he can't possibly write from the POV of a woman or a child so it must be someone else (usually Tabby is mentioned most often) writing those parts, but he is the one who does it time and again.
On the TV show "Real Time with Bill Maher" sK states that his work since becoming sober is superior to his previous work.
As for the actual writing in Lisey's Story--or any of his books--it's only Steve who is doing it but he does take into consideration suggestions and feedback he gets from Tabby after she's read his story, as well as any others who read them prior to publication. If he thinks their ideas make sense, then he is the one who does the rewriting. The only books or stories that have another author co-writing them are the ones that are clearly acknowledged as being co-written, i.e. the ones with Peter Straub and his son, Joe. One of his gifts as a person that translates to his skill as a writer is his observation of human behavior and being able to capture that to create characters and themes that ring true regardless of whether the character is a man or a woman. I think a lot of people believe that because he is a man he can't possibly write from the POV of a woman or a child so it must be someone else (usually Tabby is mentioned most often) writing those parts, but he is the one who does it time and again.
I was fully serious. When I have read Lisey's Story I subconsciously associated Scott Landon with SK. ( Sometimes, of course. ) Lisey Landon praises her husband abundantly. So I have had doubts... can SK praise himself so much?Well you know, I was only joking. I don't actually believe that any of Stephen's (or Joe's, come to that) books have been 'ghosted' by someone else, either inside or outside the family.