langoliers coming to eat our computers nom nom nom
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With the Langoliers story (popular from the 1995 miniseries), had a feeling Stephen King was writing about what it feels like when you turn 40 and your reality appears to drift and decay (the past to be eaten by Langoliers), because a younger generation is now defining the mainstream; they are now the iconoclasts.
And yup, I looked it up, he was 41 at the time of writing. His personal notes about the story betray nothing of course; but true artists never admit to anything.
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@lritter also it’s not clear he has much control over his own subtexts
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@[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...
@regehr yes, good point. the subconscious can often only be understood in hindsight.
