I assume this may have been covered already, so if a moderator wants to point me to the relevant thread, please do so. If not, let me say I have come across a news item from earlier in April that mentioned King working on a new novel, and how he had to change the time setting because of SARS-CoV-2. Just curious if there is any info on that work, in terms of genre, topic, release date, etc. Thanks...
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All bets his next novel will involve Wyoming growing spider legs
No, far too early in the process to be making any announcements about it.
....although he's said that quarantining has allowed him to make quite good progress on a new project.....
He says in the John Grisham talk that he has a suspense novel with a supernatural twist in the works.
What I don't get is that he says he aims for 2000 words a day. But that's only four pages:
But then he still has to revise those when the notes from the editor come in. And he usually has two long books a year, plus he often does screenplays as well, and in between short stories and novellas.
Can you get all that from just four pages a day?
What I don't get is that he says he aims for 2000 words a day. But that's only four pages:
How Many Pages Is 2000 Words?
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But then he still has to revise those when the notes from the editor come in. And he usually has two long books a year, plus he often does screenplays as well, and in between short stories and novellas.
Can you get all that from just four pages a day?
4 pages is a lot for one day really, I think. I guess it counts what the font size is, and how big the page is.He says in the John Grisham talk that he has a suspense novel with a supernatural twist in the works.
What I don't get is that he says he aims for 2000 words a day. But that's only four pages:
How Many Pages Is 2000 Words?
This is a question we get from time to time. There are instances when you're given an assignment, not by word count, but assigned by the number of pages. For example, 'Write a paper four pages long.' If you get an assignment to write four pages, one of the first questions that will likely come...wordcounter.net
But then he still has to revise those when the notes from the editor come in. And he usually has two long books a year, plus he often does screenplays as well, and in between short stories and novellas.
Can you get all that from just four pages a day?
Probably. It just doesn't seem a lot for someone so prolific. I figured he would write about 10 pages a day at least.
Probably includes planning, and structuring, rewriting, glancing over for mistakes, feeding the dogs, etc.
Still waiting for "Washing Machines---The Sock Gobbler from Hell"
Maybe he works on a new novel first, and the rest of the day he revises another book or works on a script. That's what he usually used to in the past., I think.
It seems to me he must do more than just write four pages a day...
To be fair, Steve has many novels which were written ages ago that he has yet to publish.
Of course, but I think Steve has a lot of unpublished stuff.
Not to mention that’s probably an average. On good days he could write 10 pages for all we know
That's what I mean. If you add up the unpublished work to what's released, then 4 pages a day seems even less likely a tempo to get all that.
I suppose he means in the talk with Grisham that four pages is the least he will do a day. I can only imagine it usually is more.
This is only a partial list:
Unpublished and uncollected works by Stephen King - Wikipedia
Cool article, a lot of these sound interestingThis is only a partial list:
Unpublished and uncollected works by Stephen King - Wikipedia
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4 pages a day, every day for a year turns into 1,460 pages. That's alot. Subtract the two days off a year that King gives himself (birthday and Christmas) that still leaves a lot of pages. Even after editing, etc. that might whittle page count down to 1,200, which is worth two or three novels.He says in the John Grisham talk that he has a suspense novel with a supernatural twist in the works.
What I don't get is that he says he aims for 2000 words a day. But that's only four pages:
How Many Pages Is 2000 Words?
This is a question we get from time to time. There are instances when you're given an assignment, not by word count, but assigned by the number of pages. For example, 'Write a paper four pages long.' If you get an assignment to write four pages, one of the first questions that will likely come...wordcounter.net
But then he still has to revise those when the notes from the editor come in. And he usually has two long books a year, plus he often does screenplays as well, and in between short stories and novellas.
Can you get all that from just four pages a day?