Usually after rereading one of these Stephen King books from my past, I do a writeup here about how it's shaped me. I intended to do that again but as I began working on the piece, it grew into something I decided to send out into the world to try to publish. If the piece doesn't get published, then I'll post it here in the continued series I've been working on.
Suffice it to say for now that this short story collection Everything Eventual had an impact on me but not a big one and many of the thoughts I had about it at the time of my first read were quite naive. I'd like to believe I've since grown.
To take an example of one change between my first read and now about twenty years later, I've come to realize that this collection is not all that grand. I couldn't imagine anyone using this in a course to teach students how to improve their short story writing but let's forget school altogether. I can't imagine someone who's read a fair amount of short stories to think that there's anything here that's all that special.
But all said, I do think that the writing is competent and most people can't do this much with the written word. I'd include myself among that set of most people.
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