Stephen King

This week's writing tips come from the master of horror Stephen King!
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Weekly Writing Tips - Stephen King (Pictured: Black and white photo of author Stephen King by Shane Leonard)
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2. Write Every Day. - “I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book.” -Stephen King
Tell Adverbs To Go To Hell. - “I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they’re like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day…fifty the day after that…and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it’s — GASP!! — too late.” -Stephen King
Writing Prompt: You walk into your house and find a stranger sitting at your dining room table that says “Sit down, we need to talk.” Who are they? What are they doing there? How did they get into your house?
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