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Stephen King offers a rare look into the mechanics of fiction through this part autobiography and part instructional manual. He begins by recounting his formative years, from childhood experiments with a typewriter to the rejection slips that papered his walls. This personal history provides context for his belief that writing is a form of telepathy. He shares the gritty reality of his early care…
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