n King conjures up these images a lot of them have film techniques which directors use to portray more than just the visual content. It goes along with the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Of course not to say that if anyone reads a King story they could turn around and make an Oscar-winning movie. John Wukovits who wrote a biography on Stephen King writes, One problem movie directors encounter with King is that he writing style is very visual – the reader can easily picture in his mind what is occurring on the page. Directors experience difficulty trying to recreate the images on film, and when they fail, the audience responds negatively. (63)King has images that help the story even further. These images can be complex and the average viewer may not understand them, which is why some directors fail. With practice and a good eye, a viewer can take King’s visual imagery and understand the story better. This visual imagery is an example of how King writes like a screenwriter since he is into describing the image very well.Other aspects of King’s writing style very much resemble a screenwriter’s style as well. In an interview with King, King began talking about the style in which he wrote the novel The Shining. King said, Each chapter was a limited scene in one place-and each scene was in a different place, until the very end, where it really becomes a movie, and you go outside for the part where Hallorann is coming across the country on his snowmobile. Then you can almost see the camera traveling along beside him. (Bare Bones 127) Later in the interview King goes onto say that when he writes his stories after a while he begins to see things in a frame like a movie screen. (Ba...
