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Two Old Farts Talk Sci-Fi
We recorded this a couple of weeks ago, but it just went live on Saturday.
Season 1 Episode 7
The Dead Zone was a 1979 book by Stephen King. It was his first book to rank among the top ten best-selling novels in the United States, and the first story that he set in the fictional town of Castle Rock. The Dead Zone then became a 1983 movie with a deep Canadian connection, directed by David Cronenberg and starring, in order of billing, Christopher Walken; Brooke Adams; Tom Skerritt; Herbert Lom; Anthony Zerbe; Colleen Dewhurst; Martin Sheen; Nicholas Campbell; Sean Sullivan; and, Jackie Burroughs.
Johnny Smith is a psychic, the character based loosely on Peter Hurkos and Edgar Cayce, a man who can glimpse the future by touch. But what if the future is too terrible to contemplate? What is he willing to risk to change it?
Troy Harkin and David Clink will do a deep dive on The Dead Zone, with special guest Bev Vincent.
Season 1 Episode 7
The Dead Zone was a 1979 book by Stephen King. It was his first book to rank among the top ten best-selling novels in the United States, and the first story that he set in the fictional town of Castle Rock. The Dead Zone then became a 1983 movie with a deep Canadian connection, directed by David Cronenberg and starring, in order of billing, Christopher Walken; Brooke Adams; Tom Skerritt; Herbert Lom; Anthony Zerbe; Colleen Dewhurst; Martin Sheen; Nicholas Campbell; Sean Sullivan; and, Jackie Burroughs.
Johnny Smith is a psychic, the character based loosely on Peter Hurkos and Edgar Cayce, a man who can glimpse the future by touch. But what if the future is too terrible to contemplate? What is he willing to risk to change it?
Troy Harkin and David Clink will do a deep dive on The Dead Zone, with special guest Bev Vincent.
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good fun.
SEASON 2, EPISODE 4—”ON WRITING
On Writing is a classic book (published just 20+ years ago, in 2000) by Stephen King. It is part memoir, part writing instruction, part how King did what he did, and does what he does.What does Stephen King say
about writing?
about what it takes to be a writer?
about what you need to do to be a writer?
Listen, and find out!
Here are four quotes from the book:
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.
Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.
The job boils down to two things: paying attention to how the real people around you behave and then telling the truth about what you see.
In the spring of my senior year at Lisbon High—1966, this would’ve been—I got a scribbled comment that changed the way I rewrote my fiction once and forever. Jotted below the machine-generated signature of the editor was this mot: “Not bad, but puffy. You need to revise for length. Formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft – 10%. Good luck.”
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Troy Harkin and David Clink will talk about the book: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.
Our special guest is our first return guest, Bev Vincent. Bev was our guest for Season 1 Episode 7, where we talked about The Dead Zone.
Bare Bones & Feast of Fear (Underwood & Miller, eds)
Art of Darkness (Douglas Winter)
We might have mentioned Fear Itself.