It doesn't always look like King practices the brevity he preaches in his own work, this is one of the points that he's often criticized (in a snickering sort o

It doesn't always look like King practices the brevity he preaches in his own work, this is one of the points that he's often criticized (in a snickering sort of way in literary circles, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King#Critical_response http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King#Critical_response). As an example I thought the first two volumes of the Dark Tower series, especially the first one was great, but the volumes got thicker and thicker later. However, just now I found a comparison of approx. word counts of the series with other epic series and his books do not seem to be excessively long (http://cesspit.net/drupal/node/1869/ http://cesspit.net/drupal/node/1869/). What I found really neat about King's advice is its practicality. This, I think, makes his points applicable to young writers as well as young entrepreneurs, esp. (1) and (7) can be combined to pg's motto of "Make smt that people want."