Danse Macabre
by Stephen King · first published 1980
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This is a non-fiction study of the horror genre including books, movies, television, etc. ([source][1])
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…exact quote) that he literally had to force himself to sit in front of the keyboard for a minimum time each night and type anything, just to get the groove started. Stephen King said a similar thing in Danse Macabre. When it comes to software, Joel Spolsky in his JoelOnSoftware blog said the same thing - Fire and Motion is your friend (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/). When it comes to…
on “I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books” ↗There was a long period of time where he _was_ ignored and underrated, up until 1981, when Stephen King gave him a shoutout in his book about horror writing (Danse Macabre) and the Call of Cthulhu RPG was published. Until then, his books were entirely an underground phenomenon, and even then it wasn't until the early 2000s or late 1990s that Cthulhu was anything but a…
on “The King in Yellow” ↗