On Writing Essay

Like any writer, King had his own thoughts on what makes a good writer and a unique writing style. He followed the belief that practice makes perfect. Every writer has to start at the bottom and make mistakes to gain experience and become successful. Stephen King started writing young, around the age of 6. At first, he just copied stories but his mother motivated him to get more creative with his writing. He started writing stories from scratch and sending them in to papers to be published. No matter how many times he was rejected, he kept writing, determined to succeed. Eventually, a paper returned his story about a boy who conterfeited stamps to get money and they attached a not telling Stephen to never staple his manuscripts. He never stapled another one. During his teen years, people in the school and in the community would always get upset about his crude writing style and try to force him to change. They all recognized his talent but wanted to lead him in another direction with his writing. Despite the fact that he had to clean up his diction in the school news paper, he never lost his original style of writing. In college he met his wife and she was a big influence on his writing. At first, he was stubborn to the idea of accepting help from his wife but she ended up being a big influence on the plot of his first famous novel Carrie. I think it's inevitable for an author of fiction books to completly seperate their life experiences with the book they're writing. After all, most of what they write is conjured from their thoughts and memories. King went through a heavy drug addiction and after he'd recovered and looked back at the books he had writed during that phase of his life, he realized that the characters he portayed in his stories were closely related to his life. For example, Kujo, represented his addiction. Whether it was a mistake he made or help from somebody else, everything King wrote in his life contributed to his success today.

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I was hesitant about reading this book because I've never read a Stephen King book and I thought reading about writing might be a little dull. Just reading the first part of it makes me want to read the rest of his books. He has a writing style that is easy for me to follow and I actually got some humor from it which i wasn't expecting to do. I respect his dedication to writing. He kept doing what he liked to do even though people discouraged him. Some of the details about the laundry from the hospitals made my stomach turn but he did a good job of making a clear picture in my head. He was pretty honest with his religious and moral views but I think he said it all in a respectable way. I was a little lost when i read the part with the poem that his wife wrote in college. I liked the point he was trying to make when he said "Life isn't a support-system for art. It's the other way around.", because I kind of had a stereotypical view that most writers were just depressed addicts but he changed my views about that.