King replied: “Here's the thing: There are books and there are books.” He explained that he writes for three or four hours each day and tries to produce a half dozen “fairly clean” pages in that time. “So if the manuscript is, say, 360 pages long, that's basically two months' work — but that's assuming it goes well. “
King says he doesn't plot or prepare his books at all. He simply starts with a situation, eg: “two children lost in the woods find something sticking out of the ground”. He then writes on, letting the story develop. The lack of advance preparation means he can write quickly, producing a novel in around three months.
4) Stephen King – 2000 Words
In it, King discusses his writing routine and how he writes around 2000 words (or six full pages) every workday.
Stephen King: 2,000 Words
In his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, King speaks on his writing speed. He would set a daily goal of about 2,000 words. This would add up to about 180,000 words in three months of writing.
Characters first
The best aspect of King's writing, besides the creativity and interesting narratives, is the characterization. Through his work, King has created some of literature's most memorable and iconic characters, such as Pennywise, Jack Torrence, and Annie Wilkes.
1. J.K. Rowling. British author Joanne Rowling, also known as J.K. Rowling, is the richest author in the world with a net worth of $1 billion. Rowling is the author of the hit children's fantasy series "Harry Potter." The seven-volume series sold over 600 million copies and has been translated into 84 languages.
His books include 65 novels and over 200 short stories and have sold over 400 million copies. King has nicknamed regular readers like me his “Constant Readers,” and in 1981, when Cujo became his fifth consecutive best-seller in a row, people joked he could publish his laundry list, and it would top the charts.
I usually get about six hours a night, sometimes seven. But I also try to take a nap in the afternoon, about an hour. So I'm going to say I get maybe seven and a half hours of sleep in a 24-hour period.
The average reader will spend 24 hours and 48 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute). How quickly can you read this book?
In 1990, an unabridged edition of The Stand was published, billed as The Complete and Uncut Edition. Published in hardcover by Doubleday in May 1990, this became the longest book published by King at 1,152 pages.
How much does Stephen King make per book? It is not known exactly how much Stephen King makes per book or has been paid as advances for publishing his books. It has been estimated that King earns between $1 and $3 for each of his book copies that are sold.
That's like reading Stephen King's The Stand: Uncut at 471,485 words and a third of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea at 26,601 words.
King favored an epistolary form to produce realism in the novel by using a combination of letters, news clippings, magazine articles, and passages from books. Stephen King also creates identifiable characters that elicit immediate sympathy from readers due to inherently flawed but human traits.
The American author, often described as the King of Horror, struggled with alcoholism and drug abuse during the 1970s before friends and family staged an intervention. King, who has published more than 60 novels including The Shining, It and Pet Sematary, sought help and has remained sober since.
And even with all of these obligations, Stephen King is also an avid reader (he reads about 80 books per year), and as he famously says in his memoir On Writing, “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write.
A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
Despite being split into multiple volumes, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu is considered the longest novel ever published.
Would you be surprised to hear that Jane Austen wrote at just above a 5th grade level, Stephen King writes at about a 6th grade level, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote at slightly more than a 6th grade level, and Leo Tolstoy wrote at about an 8th grade level?
A good goal for many professional writers is to turn out five to ten pages a day during a four or five day work week. On average, a page equals 250 words set in 12 point Times New Roman. Assume you write 1250 words a week or 5,000 words a month. You would produce about 60,000 words in a year.
Some writers, like Stephen King, require themselves to write a certain number of words every single day without fail, producing dozens, even hundreds of novels over the course of a career. Others, like Harper Lee, spend a lifetime writing only one or two books. But every human needs to take a break at times.
Insomnia is a 1994 horror/fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. It follows retired widower Ralph Roberts whose increasing insomnia allows him to perceive auras and other hidden things, leading him to join a conflict between the forces of the Purpose and the Random.
Both his books and adaptations are riddled with lines and moments that hint at what's to come. This is why King's stories have an overarching sense of doom and dread. Unlike most horror novels and films, it's not the uncertainty of danger that has you on edge, but exactly when that danger will finally happen.
I remember them! The opening line of It is "The terror that would not end for another 28 years, if it ever did, began so far as I can know or tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain." That's one that I worked over and over and over.
As it turns out, Stephen King's favorite book is none other than Lonesome Dove. This particular book, written by Larry McMurtry, was published in 1985. And it's actually known for being a classic western novel.