What Stephen King Taught Me About Writing
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5 min readFeb 20, 2018
I’ll be frank: I never read a Stephen King book before this year. Despite his prominence as one of America’s most successful and prolific modern fiction writers, I somehow evaded his work long enough that I saw The Shining in high school without the slightest knowledge that it was his book, let alone a metaphor for his difficulties with alcoholism.
