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@regehr@mastodon.social @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 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...

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[@regehr@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/users/regehr) [@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place](https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter) 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...