Quelques idées retenues à la lecture de l'essai On writing, a memoir of the craft de Stephen King.

Un conseil du rédacteur en chef du premier journal dans lequel King travailla, à la section des sports :

When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, you main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Et aussi :

[...] write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. If you're lucky [...], more will want to do the former than the latter.

Quatre problèmes perçus par l'auteur au début de l'écriture de Carrie :

1. The story didn't move me emotionally
2. I didn't like the lead character, Carrie White
3. Not feeling at home with an all-girl cast of characters
4. The realization that the story wouldn't pay off unless it was pretty long