The Stand, Complete and Uncut by WickedLester

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The Stand, Complete and Uncut

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UPDATED: Saturday, September 24, 2005 16:58
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Saturday, September 24, 2005 2:48 PM

I wasn't sure if this was the right place to post this thread, but i'm still new at this so if you don't lke it, why don;'t you go juggle geese.
Anyway, I'm rereading the Stand, the superduper long version. I just love that story, and i think that it just doesn't get much better.( except for the BDM of course...)As a writer, i tend to look for things that writer-ery people do, like spaceing and pace and such. I think that the pages are rich with metaphors and creative phrasing, things that i have never heard before and ways of speech that inspire me to think outside the box on my own Novel(Smee's Deal, coming out hopefully sometime in the next decade or so)AS i write, i try to not put any fluff in my narritive, because eventually fluff just bores people. i know it does me.
All in all, i think that i can relate to the Larry Underwood character, with what he said of "Going through the tunnle and coming out the other side a different person" I fell like thatl, since i'm on the tail end of my teenage years, i've entered a tunnle about a year ago and am almost on the other side of it. i still have a strong lazy streak inside me, and there are other problems that i deal with, but i can see the other side.
ANyway i think that this novel, along with AMerican Gods by Neil Gaiman, have taught me more about writing than i have learned from all my english teachers back in school. (With the exception of one. I think that all aspiring writers should have at least one goofy mentor, don't you?)
Any thoughts?

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Saturday, September 24, 2005 4:58 PM

MALICIOUS

The Stand is my most favorite novel, on this or any other planet. Cut or uncut. I've read it 12 times (10 cut, 2 uncut) and always find a new and different aspect.

Try reading Mr. King's very own books, "Danse Macabre," "Secret Windows" and "On Writing." They are excellent treatises (you can pluralize "treatise," right?) on the art and craft of writing.

This thread should probably have been in Talk Story. Don't worry, if it's a big deal, Haken or someone will move it.

Oh, and welcome!

Mal-licious

I'm going to add cursing and the hurling about of things to my repertoire.

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