On Writing by Stephen King where he describes a big stack of rejection letters that he stuck into the wall on a nail in his bedroom as a kid.A young King would submit a draft to magazines and newspapers that published short stories, wait weeks and months for a reply, only to receive another rejection letter.
He’d then stick each one of the letters, piled on top of one another, into a nail in his bedroom wall.An early, poetic and semi-graphic representation of “Haterz r the motivatorz.”I remember reading that story and thinking, “Damn, that dude’s a little crazy.”(Funny how THAT is what made me think Stephen King is a little crazy, and not like, I don’t know, The Shining?
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