I am in the middle of reading Stephen King's masterpiece, The Dark Tower series. 7 books totalling close to 4000 pages. I had been wanting to read these books for some time but just never bothered to actually buy the first one, The Gunslinger. My forever thoughtful girlfriend bought it for me for christmas and I read it shortly afterwards. I must admit, I found it a hard read but I knew this book was the start of something incredible and boy was I right. I'm now reading the fifth one and as much as I can't wait to find out what happens, a part of me is saddened by the fact that I will probably be finished the whole series before this christmas. Roland, Jake, Eddie, Susannah and The Dark Man have become almost like real people in my life. I feel like i've been privy to their journey through Mid-world.
I know some of you won't get what i'm talking about but i'm certain that a few of you will. And I know for a fact that my girlfriend will be feeling the same thing about these books. She is an aspiring writer and I know she envies Stephen King for his brilliant mind. She's having a few struggles at the moment getting things down in writing and I see how frustrated she gets so I try to keep my mouth shut and let her figure stuff out in her own way. But I came across a quote by Stephen King today and I think she will understand it more than most as i'm sure the problem she's having is nothing to do with a lack of ideas but more a lack of being able to transfer them from thoughts to writing. It goes something like this;
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings. Words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out."
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