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On Writing

a Memoir of the Craft
Jan 21, 2017Lord_Vad3r rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Stephen King and I really should be besties. We have a lot in common: we both started writing at a young age, we both taught English, we both don't fully understand Blood Meridian, and we share a hatred of adverbs. I have probably already shared my favorite Stephen King hospital story in another review but I don't care. While in the hospital recovering from a broken neck I was reading Bag of Bones. Naturally, I was on some really strong medication and fell asleep reading. I dreamt that I read that entire book and woke up to discover that I was on page 88. It was probably the strangest morphine dream ever as the whole thing consisted of the very normal activity on scanning words and flipping pages. Before anybody asks, no I don't remember what I dreamt for an ending and no, it wasn't even close to the real ending. Anyone who reads King will appreciate this book for the backstory of several of King's more popular novels. Everybody has their personal favorite, apparently many feel that it's The Stand, but I have several that I have liked immensely since that novel: Wizard and Glass, Just After Sunset, and Finders Keepers to name a few. The section on the writing process is really engaging and includes some very good tactics that I have never considered before. Probably the most surprising is the advice to put the manuscript away for 6 weeks before starting the revision process. I don't agree with everything he says but who am I? Certainly not a person who has published more than 50 books. If you have ever even thought about writing this would be a great place to start.