I just finished listening to an interview with Stephen King by Neil Gaiman which he talks about how he sits down in the morning at about 8:20am and writes 1,200 words or so till noon. During that time he loses himself in the work, becoming completely immersed in the act of creation. Anecdotally he mentions that if you were to write 300 words a day by the end of one year you’d have a manuscript. What’s the math? 300×365=109,500 words. If I were to write 1,200 words per day, that’s an hour for me usually, then that’s roughly 91 days or 3 months. And if I did that ever day, that would be 4 books in a year. Translated to colloquial speak it means, “Holy shit this is doable, I just need to sit my ass in the chair and turn off Instagram!” Before writing the bestseller Carrie, Stephen King lived in a trailer home and worked as an English teacher in rural Maine.
Other inspiring facts about King: Before writing the bestseller Carrie, Stephen King lived in a trailer home and worked as an English teacher in rural Maine making barely enough to support his family. Even once he became the horror icon that he is today, he still hates prolonged fancy dinners in NYC where people order french press coffee at the end of a meal. He says he’d rather go to Waffle House. Lastly, he has a pet African spurred tortoise the size of a Mini Cooper. It lives at his house in Florida and eats mainly carrots and lettuce.
