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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
5.0
This was just what I needed to push me back into the right headspace and get back to writing.
It was half memoir and half instructional. It struck the right balance between giving context to him as a person and an author. A lot can be learned from both sides of the story.
On the personal side, you can definitely understand why horror is his preferred genre. He made the best of every awful situation placed in front of him, very similar to the protagonists in his stories.
From a writer’s perspective, it was helpful to learn not only his backstory and entrance onto the novel-writing scene but just some really good tips. This book taught me a lot and it got right to the point and it broken up in a way that will be easy to refer back to as well which is always helpful. I will be putting more than a few of his reminders on post-it’s around my desk, maybe I’ll even make a poster about our mutual hate for adverbs
It was half memoir and half instructional. It struck the right balance between giving context to him as a person and an author. A lot can be learned from both sides of the story.
On the personal side, you can definitely understand why horror is his preferred genre. He made the best of every awful situation placed in front of him, very similar to the protagonists in his stories.
From a writer’s perspective, it was helpful to learn not only his backstory and entrance onto the novel-writing scene but just some really good tips. This book taught me a lot and it got right to the point and it broken up in a way that will be easy to refer back to as well which is always helpful. I will be putting more than a few of his reminders on post-it’s around my desk, maybe I’ll even make a poster about our mutual hate for adverbs