tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6449198392386917576.post3997944102982118630..comments2023-03-19T06:18:10.525-04:00Comments on Worlds Between: I swear it wasn't meLori Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340159204881410081noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6449198392386917576.post-9473743844911955922012-09-16T04:02:24.250-04:002012-09-16T04:02:24.250-04:00I also did a "retake" on a theme in a ho...I also did a "retake" on a theme in a horror story where a kid died. I set out to have the kid live, and in my story, livehe does.<br /><br />What is the "muse", and why did he/she/it force you to kill the kid off?Sweet Onehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13647499714168470952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6449198392386917576.post-71414259618237147452008-06-20T12:48:00.000-04:002008-06-20T12:48:00.000-04:00I remember King commenting on how the best thing a...I remember King commenting on how the best thing a writer can do for a story is to rip their greatest fears from their guts and put them in the story. I suppose, in effect, that's what bugged me so much about writing this story. <I>Pet Sematary</I> and <I>Cujo</I> are on my short list of books that I admire but that I will never, ever read a second time. Maybe that's part of what inspired me to write my story--I thought I'd do a retake on the kid vs. the monster, and the monster would turn out to be not so bad, and the kid would be OK. Enter muse, and that whole innocent whim went straight into the toilet. <BR/><BR/>In retrospect, I wonder if writing that story is what put me off from the horror genre as a whole for a few years. There are elements of horror in some of my stories, but I hedge that "use your greatest fears" advice an awful lot. Hmm. Something I need to learn in here somewhere, maybe.<BR/><BR/><3Lori Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00340159204881410081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6449198392386917576.post-47772782729640185332008-06-20T11:10:00.000-04:002008-06-20T11:10:00.000-04:00Muses are awfully smug when they're right, aren't ...Muses are awfully smug when they're right, aren't they?<BR/><BR/>It reminds me a bit of what Stephen King said after writing <I>Cujo.</I> I'd have to go digging through <I>Danse Macabre</I> to find it, but Tad's death at the end of the book really, really bothered him to write. Yet, it was the right ending. <BR/><BR/>The kid lives in the movie version, but partly because audiences don't take too well to endings that aren't happy, but also, if I'm remembering right, because King hated the book's ending.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com