Stephen King – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:40:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 In my better moments https://orangette.net/2011/12/in-my-better-moments/ https://orangette.net/2011/12/in-my-better-moments/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:16:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/in-my-better-moments About three weeks ago, I printed out all the drafts I’ve written so far for my next book, and then I spent three weeks avoiding reading them. I finally got up the courage on Sunday night. I poured myself a beer, sat down at the dining room table, and read through all of it. Afterward, I wanted to stab myself in the eye. But that didn’t seem like it would make the manuscript any better, so I went to bed. I woke up at five the next morning. While I lay there in the dark, thinking about the injustice of being awake at such an hour on my day off, I remembered how rough and horrible my drafts were, and…

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