The Long Walk

[Rev. Rye]

I think Steven King would be boring as fuck in RL.
Ask how he wants his coffee and he'd take fifteen fucking pages to tell you.
But apart from his over-descriptiveness, The guy knew how to think up a good and original storyline.

Funny thing about that: what you read as over-descriptive in his books? That's actually the whittled down version. According to On Writing, he says he usually has a mark of cutting down the first draft by 10%. And that struck me as strange, because whenever I showed my first drafts to my professors, they invariably said I should increase my descriptions.