In King's novel he states that he believes stories are "found things, like fossils in the ground." when i read this metaphor i imagined a huge dinosaur skeleton in the ground and how hard it is to discover them but how great and accomplishing it feels to discover such a great thing. That's the same as the stories, when you find a great story or write a great story it feels amazing as you discover and unveil it.
King's metaphor of "writing as excavation" is like writing and removing the excess material that you don't need. In the novel king goes into great explanation in the toolbox section of how not to write too much. I totally agree with this metaphor because i don't like reading excess stuff.why read the excess? i just want to get straight to the point which king does and i love him for that!
