memes and quality aside. how does he come up with so many ideas

weed

>>8376730
which ones impressed you as creative? genuinely interested

are any of his ideas actually original in any meaningful way?

cocaine

alpha brain by Joe Rogan

>>8376767
kek

Infowars Nutri-cuticals.

Diabetics

Pedophilia

They're all variations on the same idea, pretty much. What if (paranormal event) happened in a small town and (young boy/man experiencing a midlife crisis) was caught in the middle of it with his friends, but ended up overcoming it with (the power of god/accidentally blowing it up)?

>>8376730
It's a special collaboration of circumstances. the fucker writes like 3000 words a day and no matter how fucking awful it i, he can get it published because his name is Stephen King, and people will buy his shit regardless.

put simply: good work ethic, greedy publishers who don't care about quality, and blind fan boys who will eat his shit up regardless

>>8376730
>quality aside

you answered your own question

>>8376750
+ alcohol

>>8376730
He doesn't, he just has an insane amount of willpower and manages to see every idea through until it's finished.

>>8376746
What's meaningful originality?

>what if there was a haunted cellphone?


It's that easy

>>8376730
1. free time
2. practice
3. having a good imagination

It's those things in that order, possibly with 2 and 3 switched around.

That's how anyone gets their ideas, just in different amounts.

>>8376833
A lot of his short stories (and segments of his novels) are set in urban areas. Also there's a lot of variation in the type of paranormal event, from demons to monsters to aliens to zombies to vampires to extra-universal horrors. Also also a lot of his stuff isn't horror or supernatural.
>t. fanboy
I've only read three of his books. I thought one was simultaneously overwrought and not fleshed out enough (The Dead Zone) and liked about half of another (Nightmares and Dreamscapes, which was also overwrought in places despite being a book of short stories, and which was like 75% horror or supernatural by story count and around 50% by page count).

Probably a combination of the fact that the guy has lived a life and has written several thousand words per day since 1970 or whenever.