King’s English: The Making of a Writer
Stephen King Shares His Life’s Story and Creative Process in ‘On Writing’
The adolescent Stephen King collected rejection slips. He’d write a short story and pitch a publication. They’d say no, and he’d pin the rejection note to a nail on his bedroom wall, one after another, after another, until he filled up the nail and began impaling the incoming slips on a large spike.
He received encouragement along the way. He published s…
