When You Write a Story
King quotes what John Gould, editor of Lisbons weekly newspaper, said about writing a story:
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the thiungs that is not the story.
[#Stephen King], On Writing - A memoir of the craft, S.56, Hodder & Stoughton (reissued), London, 2020
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