In Today’s Journal
* Taking Your Time Redux
* Of Interest
Taking Your Time Redux
Just an additional note about taking your time. If you, like most successful fiction writers, seek to learn by reading other, more-advanced writers’ work, consider reading Stephen King’s Duma Key.
On advice of another writer, I bought Duma Key and started reading it a couple of days ago. I’m glad I did for a variety of reasons.
The main reason (as it should be) is that the story is extremely entertaining. But the main secondary reason is that King’s storytelling is a master class on taking your time.
So if you want to see that technique in action, check out Duma Key. The technique is an integral part of his other novels too, including my personal favorite The Stand, but in Duma Key it’s more up front and uninterrupted.
I finished yesterday’s reading session at about page 220 (so about 1/3 of the way through the book) and King’s application of the technique has yet to even slow down.
The whole story so far is focused-down and filled with minutiae, yet I find it impossible to put down until I physically can’t keep my eyes open any longer.
Also, if you shy away from King because you believe he only writes ‘horror’ stories, Duma Key is not horror, but it’s every inch a truly great and well-crafted psychological suspense story.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
How One Author Uses BookBub to Drive Direct Sales
Why “The Story Behind Your Story” is So Important This different way of looking at things might help some of you.