INTERNET + Stephen King = wow/grr

[Ashcrash]

Dam the internet I HAVE LEARNED IT ALL. I feel like there is nothing left to wonder about. It is bittersweet to know that Stephen King is just a regular person and not some mythological creature walking among us regular folk.

I could not believe the way he described Lord of The Flies. The fact that I had the same experience with that exact book just at a little younger age is mind boggling. Having followed up Lord of the Flies with Hearts in Atlantis is probably what made Stephen King so important to me.

 

[Ashcrash]

He described his creative process or writing process and I was like wow thats what it feels like to me.
some how I managed to keep fighting it off for the simple fact I did not believe that I had the intelligence to write it down.
This started when I was around 10 or 11 and that was around the same time I picked up music and ran with it. But the music i ran with has hit a block that I cant work around. I can't think of a new song because I am always thinking of new stories. I figured that the reason that my mind was doing this was because I was reading all the time. I would read before work after work during breaks on the weekends. I started having stories get stuck in my head the way I would have a new guitar riff or lyrics get stuck in my head. The difference is I was afraid to attempt to write them down because I have no idea where to start. So I stopped reading in the hopes my mind would get off the story mode and go back to normal but it won't. I keep wondering what the hell man. Your grown up your time to learn has passed you chose to work instead of college. you chose this path now deal with it. But it won't go away.

I had this story I had written when I was about 10. It was close to 50 pages. I had printed it out off my computer and left it with my music journals never to be thought of again. Then many years later I am grown up and moved out living my life. I come home from work one day and discover the person I was living with had stumbled across the story while looking for some paper to write on. He said "I didn't know you can write?" I said "Sure I can I have been writing songs forever and a day you have heard them! wait, are you high?" "UH no. But I didnt know you wrote stories." I laughed "Well hell me niether what the f*** are you talking about?" "THIS! This story its crazy I cant believe how it ends there has got to be more! Is there more it can't end like that?" I read the story for the first time as an adult. After years of life and experiences that teach you to fear and think before you act and question everything. It was like time traveling back to my ten year old self when I did not question IF I could do something I just did it. To a time when there was no creative fear just creative curiosity. When I finished reading it and came back to the present there was only one thought "S***!". from some far off distance I hear "RIGHT thats what I am saying the ending its not right it leaves you just questioning everything you read its sad you got to change it."
"What... Oh... no I am saying S*** because I wrote this when I was like ten." then I am fully back to reality. "Hey I dont mean its that bad come on no ten year old writes like this. Its good really you should like do something with it." I just start laughing "I dont write man that is the only story I have ever written. I was ten. End of story."
Apparently not. That story and others keep popping up at the most inconvenient times in life.

I guess what I am saying is, after listening to what Stephen King had to say about writing my attitude has changed. I am just starting to realize that those stories will probably never go away until I write them down and finish them. Maybe I need to get in touch with my inner ten year old and say "don't make it complicated dont think about it. Just do it and F*** the rest.

 

[CrimsonKingAH]

Dam the internet I HAVE LEARNED IT ALL. I feel like there is nothing left to wonder about. It is bittersweet to know that Stephen King is just a regular person and not some mythological creature walking among us regular folk.

I could not believe the way he described Lord of The Flies. The fact that I had the same experience with that exact book just at a little younger age is mind boggling. Having followed up Lord of the Flies with Hearts in Atlantis is probably what made Stephen King so important to me.

Everyone is just a 'regular' person. I put no one on a pedestal. He has talent and I enjoy reading his work and hope he lives a very long time and keeps writing ( I hope he continues to enjoy writing and publishing his work).
I have watched over time some interviews and such.. and he stated once that he wished he wasn't famous. I'm sure everyone that is famous wishes that at some point. I imagine its hard to have a regular 'good time' in public without creepy fans swarming him. I love his work... I do not 'love' him anymore than I love all my brothers and sisters in Christ. I know he has battled with addiction most of his life. I know he he almost died from hiis addiction and almost lost his family over it. I know he almost died from getting hit by a van and he will live the rest of his life here on earth with the scars/pains that accident caused. So just those two examples should tell you he is no better than anyone else here on this earth.
It's hard to not put people on a pedestal... especially if your life is intertwined with theirs by their chosen profession. He has amazing talent and I don't want to trivialize that in the least. I am a huge fan of his and always will be. I would love to meet the man. Who wouldn't? I treasure all of his books and would love to have him sign each one.. not because he is some mythical creature.. but because they are HIS work and I love his work.

 

[bobledrew]

I dunno, ask Ms. Mod about J.K. Rowling and see if she thinks EVERYONE is a regular person.

 

[GNTLGNT]

 

[Ashcrash]

Everyone is just a 'regular' person. I put no one on a pedestal. He has talent and I enjoy reading his work and hope he lives a very long time and keeps writing ( I hope he continues to enjoy writing and publishing his work).
I have watched over time some interviews and such.. and he stated once that he wished he wasn't famous. I'm sure everyone that is famous wishes that at some point. I imagine its hard to have a regular 'good time' in public without creepy fans swarming him. I love his work... I do not 'love' him anymore than I love all my brothers and sisters in Christ. I know he has battled with addiction most of his life. I know he he almost died from hiis addiction and almost lost his family over it. I know he almost died from getting hit by a van and he will live the rest of his life here on earth with the scars/pains that accident caused. So just those two examples should tell you he is no better than anyone else here on this earth.
It's hard to not put people on a pedestal... especially if your life is intertwined with theirs by their chosen profession. He has amazing talent and I don't want to trivialize that in the least. I am a huge fan of his and always will be. I would love to meet the man. Who wouldn't? I treasure all of his books and would love to have him sign each one.. not because he is some mythical creature.. but because they are HIS work and I love his work.

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I agree.

alot of this stuff you are saying is news to me. I read his books but i never really went out and researched him like I would my favorite band. I put authors in a different field for some reason. I figured alot of themselves probably come out in thier books and I liked the mystery of wondering " is this story pulled out of thin air or subconcious coming out. I feel that way with any book I read by any author. How do thoughts become story, get written and become literature? its just kind of boggled my mind. And when something boggles my mind I want to figure it out but at the same time I fear I may not comprehend it and be more lost then when I started. So to find out that the person who wrote these books isn't some wierd, high and mighty, schmuck is really neat. He would trail off at these q&a's and then say sorry i got off point what was your question? Then he would explain that he wasn't a big believer in letting plot lines control the story. I remember in my high school writing class. I stopped trying because it was hard for me to just write down a story on this work sheet hand out. I could do it and get an A but the entire time I did it I would feel like "really this is it. you have to know what happens and in what order before you write it?" You mean all these books I read have a formula. There is no way I could fallow a formula for an entire book. So I phoned it in. I got an A but thought I would never have what it takes to fallow this plot line and start a paragraph like this not that bla bla bla. So I guess I believed what my teachers tought me. I believed the notes they would write next to the A."You could really do great in writing if you keep doing what your doing." knowing I could not keep doing what I was doing with the stories I had in mind. I would stare at those words and that A while thinking to myself "eh no if you have to make characters and then write five things about each of those characters and not trail off from those five things but write around them, then the stories in my head will be too much." my brain just does not process like that. I wish I had someone say hey you know you keep getting A's but maybe you could challenge yourself and be amazing. Instead I got by. So maybe I need to go to college after all and see what other subjects I was tought incorrectly. lol

 

[Alexandra M]

Everyone is just a 'regular' person. I put no one on a pedestal. He has talent and I enjoy reading his work and hope he lives a very long time and keeps writing ( I hope he continues to enjoy writing and publishing his work).
I have watched over time some interviews and such.. and he stated once that he wished he wasn't famous. I'm sure everyone that is famous wishes that at some point. I imagine its hard to have a regular 'good time' in public without creepy fans swarming him. I love his work... I do not 'love' him anymore than I love all my brothers and sisters in Christ. I know he has battled with addiction most of his life. I know he he almost died from hiis addiction and almost lost his family over it. I know he almost died from getting hit by a van and he will live the rest of his life here on earth with the scars/pains that accident caused. So just those two examples should tell you he is no better than anyone else here on this earth.
It's hard to not put people on a pedestal... especially if your life is intertwined with theirs by their chosen profession. He has amazing talent and I don't want to trivialize that in the least. I am a huge fan of his and always will be. I would love to meet the man. Who wouldn't? I treasure all of his books and would love to have him sign each one.. not because he is some mythical creature.. but because they are HIS work and I love his work.

Well said Audra.

 

[blunthead]

Everyone is just a 'regular' person. I put no one on a pedestal. He has talent and I enjoy reading his work and hope he lives a very long time and keeps writing ( I hope he continues to enjoy writing and publishing his work).
I have watched over time some interviews and such.. and he stated once that he wished he wasn't famous. I'm sure everyone that is famous wishes that at some point. I imagine its hard to have a regular 'good time' in public without creepy fans swarming him. I love his work... I do not 'love' him anymore than I love all my brothers and sisters in Christ. I know he has battled with addiction most of his life. I know he he almost died from hiis addiction and almost lost his family over it. I know he almost died from getting hit by a van and he will live the rest of his life here on earth with the scars/pains that accident caused. So just those two examples should tell you he is no better than anyone else here on this earth.
It's hard to not put people on a pedestal... especially if your life is intertwined with theirs by their chosen profession. He has amazing talent and I don't want to trivialize that in the least. I am a huge fan of his and always will be. I would love to meet the man. Who wouldn't? I treasure all of his books and would love to have him sign each one.. not because he is some mythical creature.. but because they are HIS work and I love his work.

I agree that he doesn't really want people to think of him as superhuman and that he doesn't consider himself such. I know this mainly due to what some who know him have said. But I can't help being impressed with his tenacity and inner strength. He not only quit drinking alcohol, he quit other major addicting substances. And as mentioned he survived the accident and is still working, and working his ass off and making an enormous contribution, more than ever, to the world of the arts. I think these accomplishments show him something very very special, especially in this age of arrogant celebrity.

 

[bobledrew]

Interesting combination of discipline (his writing habits) and indulgence (his previous habits).

 

[Ashcrash]

I agree that he doesn't really want people to think of him as superhuman and that he doesn't consider himself such. I know this mainly due to what some who know him have said. But I can't help being impressed with his tenacity and inner strength. He not only quit drinking alcohol, he quit other major addicting substances. And as mentioned he survived the accident and is still working, and working his ass off and making an enormous contribution, more than ever, to the world of the arts. I think these accomplishments show him something very very special, especially in this age of arrogant celebrity.

Yea that is neat. I know that is a lame word but I just think cool is an understatement.

 

[chester brooks]

I'm not mentally insane I enjoy every moment of it. Wait what? Gosh y'all writing some big messages. I don't really read much but king but I wouldn't call him superhuman. I don't obsess on him any more than some of the bands I like? I've seen afi 4 times heh. Have u seen Stephen kings wife? They look pretty normal. Blah about the drug addiction. Cafine is a drug. Asperin is a drug. I think it's okay to do recreational drugs if you don't go overboard. Nothing hardcore. Still gotta be cautious... But not too cautious.. And not with just drugs. Just walking down the side of the road. The brave may die young but the cautious never live at alll. But yep king books rule. Best thing I ever did. Well maybe not but pretty high up there. I read all the dark tower books twice and thrice on some ha.
5 am again. We live at night. Love & peace

 

[stacy270]

Dam the internet I HAVE LEARNED IT ALL. I feel like there is nothing left to wonder about. It is bittersweet to know that Stephen King is just a regular person and not some mythological creature walking among us regular folk.

I could not believe the way he described Lord of The Flies. The fact that I had the same experience with that exact book just at a little younger age is mind boggling. Having followed up Lord of the Flies with Hearts in Atlantis is probably what made Stephen King so important to me.

I totally get what you are saying.He always comes across as " just a regular guy" and very down to earth.Probably one of the reasons his fans love him so much

 

[Maskins]

I think that Mr. King's great skill is accessibility - he can make high quality prose and literature accessible and attractive. I think the story ideas are the hook that catches readers but is the written journey he takes us on that makes him a bestseller.

I try to make a big distinction between the person and the work they produce. I am interested in knowing about him what he wants the world to know. I think he did that well in Danse Macabre and On Writing. No more, no less. In truth, I have always enjoyed his books but I haven't 'loved' all of them and that is ok because he writes what he wants to write and I can take it or leave it.

What I would say is that it is impossible not to read Stephen King and be a little inspired to try your own hand.

 

[Blake]

I was looking at the internet and something came up about Stephen King snubbing this guy that came up to him. This guy said something like: 'Hey, aren't you Stephen King? Its a great honour to meet you.' And it said that Stephen King said: 'Yeah, whatever numb-nuts.' Is this true? I can't believe it myself.

 

[Ashcrash]

I was looking at the internet and something came up about Stephen King snubbing this guy that came up to him. This guy said something like: 'Hey, aren't you Stephen King? Its a great honour to meet you.' And it said that Stephen King said: 'Yeah, whatever numb-nuts.' Is this true? I can't believe it myself.

Where did you see this. Because I saw an interview where he signed an autograph while on the john. Is there video of it or some guy saying it... I mean I guess its possible everyone has bad days lol

 

[Blake]

It was some guy. Let me see if I can find it. I'll have a look. Your kidding me, somebody came up to him while he was taking a ****?

It was at the following website:

Confessions of an Armchair Ninja: Stephen King is kind of a jerk.

 

[Ashcrash]

It was some guy. Let me see if I can find it. I'll have a look. Your kidding me, somebody came up to him while he was taking a ****?

It was at the following website:

Confessions of an Armchair Ninja: Stephen King is kind of a jerk.

Yeah he talks about it in a few different you tube videos it was when he was younger still had black hair and a beard. Apparently he was touring with some other authors and got real sick at this resturaunt and the bathrooms were real fancy but the stalls had no doors and there was one of those bathroom tenent guys that hand you a towel and stuff. So he goes rushing to the toilet does his business and he says this "160" year old guy come up and says "I think I saw you on the news this morning can I have your autograph" and he signed it lol.

 

[Blake]

Yeah he talks about it in a few different you tube videos it was when he was younger still had black hair and a beard. Apparently he was touring with some other authors and got real sick at this resturaunt and the bathrooms were real fancy but the stalls had no doors and there was one of those bathroom tenent guys that hand you a towel and stuff. So he goes rushing to the toilet does his business and he says this "160" year old guy come up and says "I think I saw you on the news this morning can I have your autograph" and he signed it lol.

Well, let's say he must be a nicer person than me. If someone did that, I'd tell them where to go. I suppose he gets most peace where he lives seeing that he is a local and all the other 'Mainers' would have respect for one of their own.

 

[Ashcrash]

It was some guy. Let me see if I can find it. I'll have a look. Your kidding me, somebody came up to him while he was taking a ****?

It was at the following website:

Confessions of an Armchair Ninja: Stephen King is kind of a jerk.

That seems to be an article taking one of Stephen Kings short stories seriously. I doubt he is a jerk to his fans. Let us compare him to Eminem. Who actually states he will Grab a fans throat till he cant breathe and does not care if they sue him. I think this is probably just someone take that story to heart. BUT if Stephen King is rude to his fans then I have never heard it. One lady on here said she met him and he was nice. It was at a book signing and he asked her "Is this your first book?" something like that anyway. I dont know I would have to see it for myself.

 

[Ashcrash]

Well, let's say he must be a nicer person than me. If someone did that, I'd tell them where to go. I suppose he gets most peace where he lives seeing that he is a local and all the other 'Mainers' would have respect for one of their own.

Ya the probably see him as a normal person. Because that is where he is from and it is a small town. They probably think his fans are crazy too lol. Just kidding.