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Stephen King is known as not only one of the most iconic horror writers of all time, but also one of literature's most prolific. And it's no accident that so many of his stories have been adapted into movies and television. He's simply just got so many stories to begin with that it isn't surprising that we've seen stories like Gerald's Game, The Outsider, The Stand, Carrie, and more grace the big and small screens. 

Now, at 77 years old, King has no plans to slow down as a writer. After all, he put out a book called Never Flinch earlier this year. In an interview with The Guardian, a fan asked King why he hasn't stopped writing. King explained, "It’s hard to decide what to do with those two or three extra hours a day between 9am and noon. You can only watch so many gameshows on TV. I can go for a walk, but then I’m still thinking about the next thing. Basically, man, I’m entertaining myself." 

King bringing up gameshows is funny, given the role that a gameshow plays in his novel, The Running Man. Written under his Richard Bachman alias, The Running Man tells the story of a man named Ben who competes in a gameshow of the same title where he must evade a group of hitmen called Hunters for 30 days. King originally wrote The Running Man in a week, which is faster than he usually writes, and the book was published in 1982.

From this, I think it's fair to say that gameshows have had a pretty strong push and pull factor in Stephen King's writing career. 

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