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A vaguely, but tangentially related fact, is that Stephen King actually considers the stories in his books as discovered, rather than invented. He talks about i
by ebj73 6y ago
A vaguely, but tangentially related fact, is that Stephen King actually considers the stories in his books as discovered, rather than invented. He talks about it in his book 'On Writing'. He considers the stories to be sort of preexisting things, and his job as a writer to unearth and discover them, rather than invent them. It's about his frame of mind while writing, I guess, but still.
- ineedasername 6y agoIt's a common theme among sculptors too: the shape is already in the stone, they just have to uncover it.
- DagAgren 6y agoIs it? The only time I have ever heard this expressed is as a bad joke.
- ineedasername 6y agoI know from a few general humanities classes I took that it was a common way of thinking about sculpting during the renaissance. And modern learning material on the topic presents it as a visualization aid. Let me be clear: It wasn't some mystical way of thinking there was, literally something that existed in the material. Again, it was more of an aid to thinking about the endeavor.
- RashadSaleh 6y agoI doubt that he actually said that but I could be wrong.
- Trasmatta 6y agoThis is actually a big plot point in The Dark Tower books.
- ebj73 6y agoHe describes stories as 'relics'. Here's a direct quote from the book: “Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. The writer’s job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.” The book is pretty good, well worth the read if you're only slightly interested in the topic!
- wincent 6y agoTo me this sounds like an echo of the view that free will is an illusion. The stories that King is going to write are already predetermined by the laws of physics applied to the initial conditions of the system. In a sense, he's really just "along for the ride".
- Trasmatta 6y agoWe're all slaves to ka.