As part of WSJ’s Magazine’s My Monday Morning prolific author STEPHEN KING discusses his favorite book he’s ever written, writer’s block, writer’s block and how the pandemic changed the stories he’s going to tell.

Lisey’s Story (Apple TV+ series that premiered on June 4th) is Kings favorite book that has been adapted. King says: “I love that book. I held onto it. There were offers to do it as a film or as a limited series in the earlier days of Netflix. The issue would come up, and I always said no because I wanted to do it myself if I could, if the time seemed right for that. The streaming thing is so wonderful because there are no ads to break the mood, to break the dramatic build of the story with dancing toilet bowls or something like that. And you don’t have to cut the thing perfectly so that it fits in a little 42-minute box so the next show can come up. You’re given a little more space, a little more room. I love that, I thought it would be a perfect medium for Lisey. And that’s the way it turned out in my humble opinion, as they say, IMHO.”

So, in his prolific career the author says he only had writers block once. Lucky, dude.

“Do I get writer’s block? I had it once. This is like saying I had pneumonia once. The thing is, I don’t outline, I don’t have whole plots in my head in advance. So I’m really happy if I know what’s going to happen tomorrow, which I do, as a matter of fact, I know what’s going to happen in the novel I’m working on. And that’s enough.”

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