On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (862 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0000547HM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 163 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported near-fatal accident in 1999 -- and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Long live the King hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it -- fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the
Aptly Titled Debi C. I enjoyed this book thoroughly, and took my time reading it. I could "hear" Mr. King's "voice" in my head as I read this on my iPad Kindle app. I felt like I was reading something from a friend---as if he had written a personal letter to me--- to give me an understanding of what he went through to become the person he is today. I think that his directives about the "how-to's" and "don't do's" were very practical. I breathed a sigh of relief when I got the feeling that writing classes and clubs are kind of a waste of ti. "Still King of his craft" according to Susannah L. Sulzman. I may as well start out by saying that I'm a huge fan of Stephen King's and am, therefore,a bit biased, but this book stays handy on my writing desk, not entirely as a "how-to" but as a "why write" paperback coach. At the top of his craft, Mr. King still has the modest, self-effacing humor that he had when he was starting out, writing in the laundry room and trying to sell stories to pulp magazines.You never get the feeling that he's talking down to you or pontificating. He talks about structure, plot, character develo. Fun read and helpful writing "how-to" This is the second time I've read "On Writing" by Steven King. The first time was when it first came out in 2000. I like most of King's novels, at least those that keep the gore down. But "On Writing" gives the reader a whole new insight into the man and his method of writing. The book was started in 1997 and scheduled for release in 2000. In the summer of 1999, King was out taking his daily walk when he was hit by a van and nearly killed. I think this traumatic even influenced "On Writing." The first half of this shor
"I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash." But massive reading on all literary levels was a craving just as crucial, and soon King was the published author of "I Was a Teen-Age Graverobber." As a young adult raising a family in a trailer, King started a story inspired by his stint as a janitor cleaning a high-school girls locker room. He gives you a whole writer's "tool kit": a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story, and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph, and literary models. --Tim Appelo. This was a child who dug Yvette Vickers from Attack of the Giant Leeches, not Sandra Dee. Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King's On Writing really contains two