How Stephen King’s Wife Saved ‘Carrie’ and Launched His Career

(via mental_floss) When King started Carrie, he typed three single-spaced pages, crumpled them up in anger, and dumped them in the trashcan. He was disappointed in himself. Worse yet, the plot was moving too slowly, meaning the finished product would be too long for any magazine.  The next day, King’s wife Tabby went to empty the trash in the laundry room and found three crinkled balls of paper. She reached in and unwrinkled the pages. When King came home from work, she still had them.  “You’ve got something here,” she said. “I really think you do.”  Nine months later, King had polished off the final draft.  Read more here…