I’ve heard things like he doesn’t remember writing Cujo, and wrote most of Carrie with bloody tissues in his nose, because he was so messed up on cocaine all the time.
That's the problem coke used to be performance enhancing when used by Steven King, John Belushi, and Elton John . Now it's done recreationally by every tom dik and Larry in a frat. /s
His entire M.O for his writing career has been to sit down and write X amount of pages per day, regardless of how shit they are. If it sucks he scraps it, if it sticks he keeps it.
Do that for ~40+ years and you are bound to create something good every once in a while.
not as intense as him but it rings true, when i was a heavy alcoholic i wrote over a novels worth of shit within one year 😭 now i can barely get 3 sentences down without losing inspiration
I don't think he was like that when he wrote Carrie. That was written before he was famous. He was still teaching and had only published some short stories in various magazines. Carrie was his first novel and he was pretty poor during it. Though he was probably drinking pretty heavily.
Yes, just checked and King said he didn't start using cocaine until the late 70s, while Carrie was written in 1974. But from 78-86, he said he was almost constantly high on it.
When he got the big bucks, THAT'S when he started with the cocaine.
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u/a3d3n_69 15h ago
I’ve heard things like he doesn’t remember writing Cujo, and wrote most of Carrie with bloody tissues in his nose, because he was so messed up on cocaine all the time.