What kind of stories do you like most?
Personally, I'm a huge fan of science fiction. If it's weird and unrealistic I love it! However, specifically, I love fiction that deals with other worlds (universes, dimensions, realities...whatever you want to call it). Stories that have people from one world enter another, or objects that come from another world that changes someone's life forever. Books like: "The Chronicles of Narnia", by C.S. Lewis "His Dark Materials", by Philip Pullman "The Circle Trilogy", by Ted Dekker "A Wrinkle in Time", by Madeleine L'Engle I even like books that give the reader a new "world" to live in. Books that have a completely new system of living, weather it be another planet, or our own with a twist. Books like: "Harry Potter", by J.K.Rowling "The Lord of the Rings", by J. R. R. Tolkien "the Seven Sleeper Series", by Gilbert Morris. In other words, I like books that take me from this reality, and bring me to a completely different one! I hope this helps!
What kind of story would you like to read?
I'm doing a bit of a study, and I was wondering, what would you like to read? I don't mean a book that's already been written, but what sort of stories do you like? Comedy? Romance? Adventure? None of these? All of these? I would like to know two things along with your answers. So really I have three questions. 1. What kind of story would you like to read? 2. How old are you? 3. What would you classify your favorite book as? Thank you so much for the help.
Why do people like to read Stephen King novels?
So many people have answered this question exceptionally well, but I love SK's work so much that I'm going to throw in my two cents anyway.I have been a reader since before I can even remember. I have been a reader of Stephen King since I was about 13 when I first picked up Salem's Lot and my 8th grade teacher asked if my mom knew what I was reading in my free time. "Of course she does, who do you think drove me to the bookstore?"There are so many things I could say about several of his books that are very near and dear to me, but I'll try to speak generally:As others have said, SK is a phenomenal storyteller. His ability to suck you in and make you squirm is not necessarily a product of the writing but of the story. There are plenty of excellent writers who couldn't tell a good or interesting story if you held a gun to their head. But Stephen King is actually a decent writer with an astounding talent for making a living, breathing world that you will find yourself invested in. SK actually is a good writer. Not consistently, and not all at once in a single book either. But he certainly has his shining moments. The Dark Tower series is my favorite series of all time. In my books, it's better than Harry Potter, and I grew up on that series. I should be spewing Harry Potter for the rest of my life, but reading The Dark Tower books at the ripe age of 14 and rereading it every other year or so has only made me more solidified in this love. His stories have variety and range. Again, like others have said, he writes about small towns and big cities and fantasy worlds. By itself that's all well and good, but he also makes every world feel real. Dialogue, characters, the places themselves are all relatable and lively, written in a way that not many other authors/writers/essayists have been able to accomplish. He can scare the shit out of you, and ten pages later make you cry. He makes the cosmos move around you and then makes you feel like the cosmos is apathetic to your existence. He writes on big, meaningful relationships and he writes on average acquaintanceships. Not everything he writes is good, but everything he writes moves in an inescapably interesting way. "And that is the truth, if you can but dig it."
What kind of stories sell well?
Do you think a story about rape, abuse, incest and the most complicated love triangles would make it big in our society today? what kind of stories other than vampires would make it to top sellers?
Kind of depressed about the story I am writing... What would you do?
I suggest finishing the story. Then edit it. Can you cut adjectives and adverbs? Take out a section that doesn't move the plot?
What do you answer when someone asks you ‘what kind of story do you want to tell’?
I’ve been asked that before, but I always shrugged with my half-hearted, “I dunno…” But now that I think about it, I just might have an answer.I want to tell a story that will come alive and bring my readers on some crazy adventure. I want a story that will take my reader’s hand and whisk them away, causing them to think, question, and feel. I want my reader to laugh, to rant, to cry, etc.Reading books —and writing — has always been an outlet for me as I’ve grown. I love sitting in my room and drowning in a good book. It was the distraction I needed to get through the day, to keep my calm/sane. But it was also my only sense of imagination, my only way of escape. I could picture the books so well in my mind. I could become a spectator of it all, watching as characters battle their fears and doubt; and even a few monsters. So, I want my stories to be to my readers what they were to me. When someone reads my stories, I want to take them into a whole new world, where their imagination can have a life of its own right there.So many others have achieved this before me, I just hope that, with time and effort, I can too.