![]() Ironically, King threw the first few pages of the manuscript (the shower scene) out at first, thinking that he couldn't realistically write a teenage girl. Having written several novels but selling none, he began to write a story about a telekinetic teenage girl, which would eventually become Carrie. Supporting his young family by working as a high school teacher and occasionally selling short stories on the side, King struggled to make ends meet, even choosing to have his phone disconnected to save money. The beginning of King's career is a classic Rags to Riches story. Many of his works reference each other, building up a larger universe. He's known for being ludicrously prolific while producing far better writing than most people who pump out stories at his rate, and better even than many writers who take a lot longer about it, for that matter. ![]() The currently dominant author of the horror genre - although he prefers not to pigeonhole himself in such a manner - Stephen Edwin King (born Septemin Portland, Maine) has added much to its stock of tropes. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut." ![]() "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. ![]()
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