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martinjamesknox 's review for:
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
If only every successful fiction writer would publish a book of their life around writing (and most of the best of them have I suppose), then we’d all be a lot better at focusing and getting some words down. They would all give us the same disclaimer though - that it really does all come down to the individual in terms of desire and capacity for reading and writing in general etc.
I enjoyed everything that Stephen King had to say about his tendencies toward descriptive writing, dialogue, drafting (door shut, door open - great concept), grammar, symbolism, and theme, to name a few.
Even though the book can seem a bit disjointed in its flow, I found each part of the book enjoyable (the actual memoir, the ‘toolbox’ of mandatory writers skills, and the tips for writing) and that any bad review here is pretty harsh - he does explain that he had the first draft in a drawer for months and was brutally run down by a van and had to figure out whether or not he could write again. So he done not bad.
I enjoyed everything that Stephen King had to say about his tendencies toward descriptive writing, dialogue, drafting (door shut, door open - great concept), grammar, symbolism, and theme, to name a few.
Even though the book can seem a bit disjointed in its flow, I found each part of the book enjoyable (the actual memoir, the ‘toolbox’ of mandatory writers skills, and the tips for writing) and that any bad review here is pretty harsh - he does explain that he had the first draft in a drawer for months and was brutally run down by a van and had to figure out whether or not he could write again. So he done not bad.