Book Protagonist that SUCK!!!

[Excited Penguin]

He isn't necessarily putting himself in his stories, it might just be a type of character he enjoys writing about.

I haven't read much of him, though. Only Christine, I think.

[Homeless Nutter]

He isn't necessarily putting himself in his stories, it might just be a type of character he enjoys writing about.
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Well - most of King's protagonists are  teachers, and/or alcoholic, burned out writers. We know he used to work as a teacher, while publishing his early work. I have no idea, what could have inspired the rest...

[Excited Penguin]

He isn't necessarily putting himself in his stories, it might just be a type of character he enjoys writing about.
[...]

Well - most of King's protagonists are  teachers, and/or alcoholic, burned out writers. We know he used to work as a teacher, while publishing his early work. I have no idea, what could have inspired the rest...

Every fiction book ever written comes from the imagination of the author, so what is so crazy about some protagonists being like himself? I think you're focusing on the wrong thing. Are the stories any good? If they are, you shouldn't really care too much about who the author is and how similar he is to some of his characters.

As a writer, you imagine yourself, to an extent, in the shoes of every character, in order to make the dialogue flow naturally and other stuff like that. But with POV or main characters even more so, it's impossible to write without doing it. So what I'm saying is, I don't think he's writing about himself so much as some idealized version of himself, which, granted, shouldn't be so obvious as you seem to think it is, but is also inescapable in a way.