Stephen King; fossil digging exercise

[Kenml]

Around the 55% mark of "On Writing: A Memoir For the Craft" Mr. King suggests an e-mail to let him know how it worked. I'm in no way expecting him to respond, rather I want to know where, on this forum, do I post the 3900 words?

Cheers,
Ken

 

[Neesy]

Around the 55% mark of "On Writing: A Memoir For the Craft" Mr. King suggests an e-mail to let him know how it worked. I'm in no way expecting him to respond, rather I want to know where, on this forum, do I post the 3900 words?

Cheers,
Ken

One of the moderators will have to answer that - it is a technical question - sorry!! I wish I could help.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Around the 55% mark of "On Writing: A Memoir For the Craft" Mr. King suggests an e-mail to let him know how it worked. I'm in no way expecting him to respond, rather I want to know where, on this forum, do I post the 3900 words?

Cheers,
Ken

Hi and welcome to the site.

Unfortunately Stephen is no longer accepting submissions for the On Writing exercise and we don't allow people to post their writing directly to the MB, sorry. If you would like folks to read your story, you could begin a thread in the Self Promotion area and then post a link to your work offsite.

 

[Kenml]

Wow, that was fast FlakeNoir. Will look at the Self Promotion area but this writing was an exercise and nothing more. Used the techniques he suggested in the book. A very worthwhile drill.
Now back to my manuscript.

 

[Kenml]

I used SK's fossil digging exercise and ended up with seven pages. My question: Is what I wrote tied to a copyright with SK's "On Writing: A Memoir For the Craft" or can I claim what I did off his - for lack of a better discription - outline, as my own work and put my name on it?

 

[FlakeNoir]

I used SK's fossil digging exercise and ended up with seven pages. My question: Is what I wrote tied to a copyright with SK's "On Writing: A Memoir For the Craft" or can I claim what I did off his - for lack of a better discription - outline, as my own work and put my name on it?

I think I remember Marsha (his PA) mentioning that it would be all right to put your own name to it. I guess giving him a mention somewhere in how the idea came about, wouldn't hurt either.

You might want to wait for confirmation on this though and Marsha is away on vacation until the 13th. I'll leave her an alert anyway.

Moderator

 

[PatInTheHat]

Ms. Mod Alert- Ms. Mod Alert-Ms. Mod Alert di-di di-di di di di-di di Ms. Mod Alert...............
....No thats the Bat Signal, damn it Jim we need the Ms. Mod Alert...



Jeez didn't this joint use to have summa them high tech soup cans???

 

[FlakeNoir]

Ms. Mod Alert- Ms. Mod Alert-Ms. Mod Alert di-di di-di di di di-di di Ms. Mod Alert...............
....No thats the Bat Signal, damn it Jim we need the Ms. Mod Alert...



Jeez didn't this joint use to have summa them high tech soup cans???

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! If she hears you in AZ and has to get out of the pool for this... well, lets just say that the longer I can avoid the woodchipper, the better.

 

[PatInTheHat]

HA-SNRT-HA


Oh crap she can't find me can she, reckon she traveled light, I mean whatta the odds she packed that chainsaw????

 

[VultureLvr45]

I picture her a bit more like or

 

[PatInTheHat]

View attachment 9471 I picture her a bit more like View attachment 9472 or View attachment 9473

Oh no uh-uh she firmly believes in power tools and its meat maulin' horsepowered potentialKeeps a really nice garden too I understand, um, perhaps I've said too much

 

[Kenml]

Humm, Do I even want to venture into this side of the woods?

 

[FlakeNoir]

Humm, Do I even want to venture into this side of the woods?

We're mostly harmless.
( Though... we are also fans of The King.)

 

[PatInTheHat]

Humm, Do I even want to venture into this side of the woods?

Ain't smellin' gas fumes are ya???....eh, you should be fine...WHAT WAS THAT???????

 

[Moderator]

I used SK's fossil digging exercise and ended up with seven pages. My question: Is what I wrote tied to a copyright with SK's "On Writing: A Memoir For the Craft" or can I claim what I did off his - for lack of a better discription - outline, as my own work and put my name on it?

You can put your own name to it even though the original inspiration was the writing exercise.

 

[PatInTheHat]

-gulp-

 

[Kenml]

Thanks Ms. Mod

 

[GNTLGNT]

-gulp-

 

[VultureLvr45]

Giant....I'm scairt...