My Response to Stephen King's "Reading to Write"

           In response to one of the questions under Stephen King’s short essay, “Reading to Write,” I personally believe that writers could learn a thing or two from television. The reasoning for this thought comes from how some television shows such as the news or history channels can offer information from around the world to inspire writers. Events such as acts of terrorism or crimes in general could lead to writing ideas for stories about horror and violence. Then there are historical discoveries like the pyramids, ancient buildings, and important figures that can be a good source for stories relating to fantasy or retelling past events. These examples are here to show that inspiration can come from anything but it depends on the writer themselves to try to find it. While news and history channels can act as sources for new writing ideas, there are more programs offered by television. These programs consist of cartoon shows, soap operas, and others like it. When watching those types of programs, a variety of reactions could happen to writers such as thinking that they could write something better than what they saw or having the desire to create something similar. There are examples of these types of writings in the form of text that admits it took inspiration from other sources or fanfiction of television shows. In any case, inspiration can come from anything including television.