Re: Stephen King's 10 tips to successful writing

> either look it up in the dictionary, thereby making sure you have it right --
> and breaking your train of thought and the writer's trance in the bargain --
> or just spell it phonetically and correct it later.  Why not?  Did you think
> it was going to go somewhere?  And if you need to know the largest city in
> Brazil and you find you don't have it in your head, why not write in Miami,
> or Cleveland?  You can check it...but later.  When you sit down to write,
> write.  Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if
> it absolutely cannot be put off.
> 6.  Know the markets.
>      Only a dimwit would send a story about giant vampire bats surrounding a
> high school to McCall's.  Only a dimwit would send a tender story about a
> mother and daughter making up their differences on Christmas Eve to
> Playboy....but people do it all the time.  I'm not exaggerating; I have seen
> such stories in the slush piles of the actual magazines.  If you write a good
> story, why send it out in an ignorant fashion?  Would you send your kid out