I read a piece that showed how all (all!!!) of his books tie together. They're all a part of the same world, and all of the characters are interwoven. For instance, the cook (a main character) in "The Shining" was also a small character in a flashback in "It".
Smart guy, to invent a world completely from scratch, and keep track of every little piece in it, correctly. For what, 40-odd years and likely 10's of thousands of pages?
The smart guy didn’t invent the concept of tying his books together. He lifted the idea from Robert Heinlein, the Grandmaster of Science Fiction - and while he was at it he lifted dozens, if not hundreds of plot elements from Heinlein.
His assistant, Robin Furth (author of “The Dark Tower Concordances”) is the “smart guy” behind King’s keeping track of his interwoven characters and plots. She spent many decades compiling, cross-referencing and keeping his continuity straight and his ducks in a row. By his own admissions, King couldn’t have done it alone. King’s worlds are rooted in Heinlein’s “omniverse” concepts, coverging timelines and time-travel paradox stories.
I admire King’s work up to a point, but he got lazy and worthlessly liberal. “The Stand” is his masterpiece and he went downhill from there. He lost all concept of Good vs. Evil and became a relativist. On Gun-control, he’s a hypocrite. In the late 90’s he confronted a stalker in his driveway and after the guy left he went inside so rattled that he loaded his gun.
> I read a piece that showed how all (all!!!) of his books tie together. They’re all a part of the same world, and all of the characters are interwoven. For instance, the cook (a main character) in “The Shining” was also a small character in a flashback in “It”.
If all of his works are I electronic format which I would certainly think they are he probably just looks at some of the material he wrote previously and expands on it. I have thousands of reports back from the late 80’s to present saved that I do searches on whenever I’m asked about someone I’ve worked on before. It looks through all the text in the reports and returns the results that match...and some guys think I just have a good memory. Little do they know...lol