<P> One of Stephen King's inspirations for Misery was the reaction his fans had to his 1984 novel The Eyes of the Dragon . Many fans rejected The Eyes of the Dragon because it was an epic fantasy book, with virtually none of the horror that initially made his reputation . Paul Sheldon feeling chained to the Misery books by his fans was a metaphor for King's feeling chained to horror fiction . Another source was King's addiction to drugs and alcohol, and his struggle to give them up . He stated: "Take the psychotic nurse in Misery, which I wrote when I was having such a tough time with dope . I knew what I was writing about . There was never any question . Annie was my drug problem, and she was my number - one fan . God, she never wanted to leave ." When further addressing the idea of whether the character of Paul Sheldon was based on himself, King stated that in certain ways, he was, but in the ways where every character is a part of the author in some way: "It would be fair enough to ask, I suppose, if Paul Sheldon in Misery is me . Certain parts of him are...but I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you ." </P> <P> King has also attributed a dream he had while on a trans - Atlantic flight to London with the situation and characters that became fleshed out in Misery . He noted that he wrote the idea on an American Airlines cocktail napkin when he woke up so he could make sure to remember it, writing: "She speaks earnestly but never quite makes eye contact . A big woman and solid all through; she is an absence of hiatus .' I wasn't trying to be funny in a mean way when I named my pig Misery, no sir . Please don't think that . No, I named her in the spirit of fan love, which is the purest love there is . You should be flattered ."' </P> <P> King and his wife, Tabitha King, stayed in London's Brown's Hotel, and wrote "sixteen pages of a steno notebook", on a desk the concierge offered him that was the same desk Rudyard Kipling owned, and died of a stroke while writing . The working title of the book, which King thought would only be around thirty thousand words (it ended up being almost four times that at 370 pages), was The Annie Wilkes Edition . While discussing the pros and cons (mostly cons) of pre-plotting novels, King mentioned that he had originally planned for Annie to force her prisoner to write a book, that she would then bind in Paul's skin . When commenting on why he chose not to go that route, King said: </P> <P>... it would have made a pretty good story (not such a good novel, however; no one likes to root for a guy over the course of three hundred pages only to discover that between chapters sixteen and seventeen the pig ate him), but that wasn't the way things eventually went . Paul Sheldon turned out to be a good deal more resourceful than I initially thought, and his efforts to play Sheherezade and save his life gave me a chance to say some things about the redemptive power of writing that I had long felt but never articulated . Annie also turned out to be more complex than I'd first imagined her, and she was great fun to write about ..." </P>

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