Re: Stephen King's 10 tips to successful writing

> Dear all,
> I found the following tips in the 1988 edition of The Writer's Handbook and
> thought I share it with you.
> 1.  Be talented.
>      This, of course, is the killer.  What is talent?  I can hear someone
> shouting, and here we are, ready to get into a discussion right up there with
> "What is the meaning of life?" for weighty pronouncements and total
> uselessness.  For the purposes of the beginning writer, talent may be as well
> defined as eventual success -- publication and money.  If you wrote something
> for which oneone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't
> bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you
> talented.
>      Now some of you are really hollering.  Some of you are calling me one
> crass money-fixated creep.  And some of you are calling me bad names.  Are
> you calling Harold Robbins talented? someone in one of the Great English