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2006-10-19 08:39:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Please include links, but don't point me to stephenking.com or Wikipedia, I've already used those.
2006-10-22 02:26:43 · update #1
I saw a TV interview with him about 15 years ago, and he said his ideas came to him in dream form, when asleep.
2006-10-19 08:43:29 · answer #1 · answered by SteveUK 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Stephen King wrote Carrie, his first novel, he was a teacher at a high school and no doubt saw girls who were unpopular being picked on by the popular jerks. Happens in every school.
He's always had an interest in the various types of extrasensory perception (ESP) so it wasn't hard for him to give Carrie telekinesis and a way to strike back.
Firestarter came out of the idea that some arsonists are actually setting fires through ESP. Not deliberately, but because they can't control it. His next thought was probably how could a child be trained not to start fires who has the ability?
Most ideas for a novel start with a "What if?" Stephen King is no exception.
2006-10-19 08:50:44 · answer #2 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King gets most of his inspiration from things that have happened to him in his own life.
2006-10-19 09:01:30 · answer #3 · answered by Stephany W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a matter of coincidence, my sister-in-law was watching ghost hunters on the sci-fi channel the other day, and I couldn't help watching, too. There was one episode that took the ghost hunting team to the hotel in Colorado where "The Shining" was filmed. The man who worked there was telling them (and us) about King and his wife having stayed there at the end of their tourism season one year, and they were there pretty much alone, and things happened around them that were unexplainable. It also happened to the ghost-hunting team, while they were filming it for the program we were seeing. It drove King to write that one, anyway. I think the hotel was named Stanley or something.
2006-10-19 08:57:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read Stephen King books all the time. I am reading the Black House now.
I think he gets his inspiration from an incredible immagination. I think he pictures himself in the worse possible place and situation and puts it on paper.
2006-10-19 08:44:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just read Misery this Summer.I thought it was so fantastic that I bought the film.Haven't watched it yet but it's meant to be one of his best book film conversions.I would think that he gets lost in his mind, carried away on imaginitive threads to places we could only dream of, but which for him hold a reality.
2006-10-19 09:12:55 · answer #6 · answered by D8411 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read someplace and I can't remember where that he gets his ideas from the everyday things he sees around him, i.e. an old fallen tree in the woods, a drain outlet, simple things we all see but to his amazing mind they become stories.
2006-10-19 08:44:18 · answer #7 · answered by annie42 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to www.stevenking.com
Under FAQ I think this question is addressed by King himself
2006-10-19 08:52:52 · answer #8 · answered by adamwitzhoops 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He said in the past that he gets them from his nightmares.
2006-10-19 08:48:33 · answer #9 · answered by aloneinga 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess his imagination or from nightmares. Sorry I don't have links :)
2006-10-19 08:51:51 · answer #10 · answered by J. A. M. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋