@[email protected] @[email protected] It's honestly unclear to me whether King has any idea what he's doing. Not in the sense he's a bad writer - by any metric I can think of that would be a stupid claim to make. But in the sense that he always gives the impression of not really understanding what's going on in his own writing process. That said: many, many people have found his book on writing helpful and I've never been published so...

@[email protected] Oh yes, this. Chronic fatigue means that I've just lost an entire day (and broken my deliberate exercise pattern) to my wife needing a neck massage to release a trapped nerve, because the 20 minutes it took used all my energy for the day.

Do I regret it? Nope. Has it taken 18+ months to reach the stage where this sort of interrupt is closer to 'tomorrow will need to be a new day one' rather than spiralling into a week plus of black thoughts and depression? Yes. Yes, it has.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Not sure if the first one is true, but I love the rumour that one of the tests listed for the original 2CV was "can be picked up and carried out of a field by no more than four farmers if it gets stuck in mud". "Can drive across a dry ploughed field without breaking a case of eggs on the back seat" was an actual documented requirement.