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Stephen King on High School

Posted by Homeschool_Dad

September 5, 2008 |

Don’t worry, folks — I’m not reading Stephen King stories to my six-year old at night.  or am I recommending that anyone put “Cujo” on their nine year old’s reading list.  However, I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the insight offered in Stephen King’s nonfictional book, On Writing — part memoir part field guide for creative writers.

There’s lots of practical advice that could prove truly inspiring for up-and-coming writers.  If you have any teens with an interest in writing fiction — and you don’t mind you 16 year old hearing about King’s turbulent life — it’s worth investigating.

However, here’s what I wanted to share from King’s book.  Here’s what the master horror says about high school:

“It was bad, but what in high school is not?  At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us.  It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.”

See, even Stephen King is disturbed by the public school system!


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  1. singlemom on September 13, 2008 10:44 am

    Stephen King lives about 30 minutes from my home. He is an excellent writer, and one of my favorite authors. The Old Town Library has a Tabitha King wing because she donated money to the library. She and her husband have helped their community in different ways. Tabitha and their son are also writers.

    Even when the girls were young, they new who stephen king was. They had seen Cujo, Firestarter, and Siver Bullet when they were young (not too young), and had both done reprts on him during their Maine Studies. Homeschooling afforded them the time to do the research for this, even though it wasn’t a requirement.

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