On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Kelly St. Clair <kellys@efn.org> wrote:

On 5/24/2015 10:14 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:

King suffers more than a little from "Tom Clancy Syndrome”

(snip)

And everyone is telling you that you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread and all your writing is glorious and oh, by the way is Chapter Seven done yet?

So true. All of this.

IIRC, there's a bit in On Writing where King mentions people marvelling at how he writes so much so quickly. He responds with something like, "They have no idea how much stuff I've got that I wrote back when I never got published."

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