Writing Exercise

[tonemaster]

While I was not able to dig up a old fossil, I was able to dig up a fresh corpse. I do not think it's a good idea that the offer to make submissions through the web site be deleted from future printings. Readers can go to the web site and figure it out for themselves. The whole point of the book is to get readers not authors to read your work. While I am sure many of the persons who post here are Stephen King's biggest fans, I hope it's not the fear of ending up as a human lampshade that is the reason for removing it. I say let it stand as it was written. If enables someone to write a story; it has accomplished what it was intended to do.

[Moderator]

I would not suggest removing the exercise itself from the book, but rather the suggestion to send it to Steve for his possible perusal. And if more people actually read the FAQ themselves, it would solve a lot of the problems that come up when we have to tell them he no longer accepts submissions.

[Roseasharn]

I did this writing exercise and scared the living tar out of myself.

[JohnDalglish]

I did this writing exercise and scared the living tar out of myself.

Hi,

I did it too (in the full knowledge that submissions were closed) and I found it a marvelously instructive exercise and I'd recommend it to every aspiring writer (or not!).

Long days and pleasant nights

[Bryan James]

Someone should start an ongoing Social Group for "The 'On Writing' Exercise."

A lot of folks want to write. Most of them shouldn't. That's just the way it is. Them that remain actually dig constructive criticism.

~BJS

[Mr Nobody]

Well, I did the exercise and just kept it to myself, seeing as I knew/gathered that I'd missed the deadline. Key word is 'exercise'. It can never hurt (and in my case, it got the synapses firing and I wrote something else which got published, so 'me happy').

[PatrickDelVisco]

The fossil Stephen King pointed out at first looked like a Brontosaurus, big-boned and placid; a victim of predation or natural disaster. It came out of the ground easily. But as I dug I found curved claws and sharp teeth: it was a Mega-Tyrannosaurus. It took 25 pages to unearth the beast. Thanks, I would probably never have seen it lying there. P.D.