The Importance of Writing Dull
I have been making my way through Stephen King's Danse Macabre (slowly but surely) after being introduced to it for a university English assignment (by the way, lots of good notes in there! Who knew?). It is basically one big unorganized essay about a lot of things, but mainly about horror. About a third of the way through, King starts talking about establishing his niche and psychoanalyzing what made him interested in writing horror—and how pointless it might actually be to try to analyze why anyone writes what they write, as he says "you might as well ask the rose why it is red."
