Documentary Analysis: Investigating Writers

Reading one articles over and over push you to write like the writer. He shows us his own experience said, “When I read Ray Bradbury as a kid, I wrote like Ray Bradbury everything green and wondrous and see through a lens smeared with the grease of nostalgia. When I read James M. Cain, everything I wrote came out clipped and stripped and hard-boiled.”(212)King puts passion in reading and writing, by his teenage ages everything change, and his found his own style. This prove that practice make us perfect, when you have love for one domain and you put hard work, you succeed. We have to learn also that talent it is no enough, for we can see example of his son with saxophone lessons. Time, love, passion joy, determination help us to achieve our

Stephen King, in his chapter titled “Toolbox” in On Writing, aims to convince the struggling writer that taking simple steps to organize a metaphorical box of writing tools will improve their writing. He does so through the use of organization, substance, and style and by appealing to his audience with logical examples to support his claims. “Toolbox” is, in summary, a crash course given by King on writing improvement. He depicts the fundamentals of good writing as levels of a toolbox then demonstrates how and when each writing tool should be used (King 106-107). The chapter is a veritable response to the question, “How can I improve my writing?” which one can imagine King is routinely asked as a world-renowned author. He already enjoyed an immensely successful writing career when Hodder published On Writing in 2012, so King wrote the chapter “Toolbox” as literary advice to fellow writers by drawing from his own success (“Stephen King”).

In the memoir On Writing by Stephen King, there are several differences with the structure when compared to fiction novels. First and foremost, considering the memoir is about his writing techniques, King goes into detail about how he engages the audience. He explains what he calls the “toolbox”, which contains the essential resources every writer needs in order to improve their style. A few of his tips include using basic vocabulary you know the audience will relate with, avoiding adverbs at all costs, and avoiding a passive voice in narration. After going through the many tips he had to offer, I realized the difference between the way his words flow together versus other author’s. A strategy King utilizes for engaging the reader is remaining dominant and straight-forward in his words. He mentions that the reader is always the main concern, and making sure they will understand the point is necessary. Another way King connects with the audience is by using his sense of humor. This memoir doesn’t have a formal tone, which is half of what makes it enjoyable. There are several times where he is satirical, sarcastic, and making jokes to keep the reader engaged. With that being said, the overall diction is a balanced mixture between informative and humorous. An additional difference between King’s memoir and fiction novels is the way he is direct with the audience. Considering fiction novels are generally telling stories to the reader, there isn’t a connection with the narrator.

Stephen King, a world renowned author, has had much success in the genres of horror, science fiction and suspense. Due to his success, King decided to share some of his tricks of the trade in order to help aspiring authors with his book On Writing.

When presented with the question, “who are you as a writer?”, I was speechless at first. But after thinking about it, I realized who I am as a writer has been influenced by so many different sponsors throughout my life and there was not a short, concrete answer. Brandt mentions that “literacy is sponsored by people, institutions, and circumstances that both make it possible for a person to become literate and shape the way the person actually acquires literacy.” (Brandt 43) My attitude towards writing has been influenced by teachers, both negatively and positively, by my mother, and by academic assignments over the years. My answer to the question can only be answered by a narrative of my writing life. I have convinced myself that I am a terrible writer, and when presented with a writing assignment, I get anxious instantly. I see writing as a burden and a huge obstacle that gets placed in my life. Academic writing is not fun, but something I value due to the fact that we are a grade driven society. When writing, I write to the guidelines in order to receive points for the requested criteria. The reason being, I gave up on expressing my own ideas because I had been shut down by so many teachers throughout my education. I tried to write down what came to my mind and put my own twist on things, but that was not the “right” way to write papers. In order to make both my teachers and my grades happy, I wrote what they wanted to hear, and even then I was not to the level they

Everyone knows what writing is to one extent or another, but we all have different definitions of how it should be done and varying degrees of seriousness about the art. We all have a process of writing, but each is unique to ourselves and our own experiences. Annie Dillard and Stephen King are two well known authors who have published many pieces, two of which describe how they view the writing process and let their readers get a peek of what goes on through their minds when they write. These two pieces are Dillard’s The Writing Life and King’s “What Writing Is.”

With just about every book the learning process begins right from the get go with very few exceptions. Whether it is a moral lesson or a writing lesson, it rarely fails to appear. King speaks of his experiences with good writing and what he himself learned about it. King speaks about the novel The Grapes of Wrath and how it filled him with “feelings of despair and good old-fashioned jealousy” (179). King described his feeling from the book and states that the writing drove him to work harder to better his own writing. For those writers looking to blow people away with their own writing Stephen King explains that that can only be done once it has been done to them (179). Just like writers are capable of producing good writing there are also those who just cannot produce the writing they would like to. Although bad writing does not sound like it could help any one at all, it can actually help growing writer more than the good writing. King recalls the book Asteroid Miners as being important to his writing because it allowed him to think that he was already doing far better than the writing in that particular book. Stephen King even goes as far as stating that reading a bad book is as beneficial as “a semester at a good writing school, even with superstar guest lecturers thrown in” (179). If anyone knows a thing or two about writing, it would have to be King, he conveys his ideas with examples that leave no doubts inside his readers’ minds. Stephen King is a great example of a successful writer who applied the things he learned into his own work. Learning through others’ mistakes will always be an effective learning method in just about

In the article, The Writer’s Journey, there are twelve stages a hero encounters on their journey according to the author Christopher Vogler. For instance, the first stage is the Ordinary World that allows for the reader to identify the hero before the journey starts. Such as, unique characteristics or problems before disrupted by the Call to Adventure that presents a challenge that has to be defeated. The call comes in different forms like: a message, death, or even the arrival of a villain. The journey continues on to the Refusal of the Call, which is, when the hero tries to prevent the challenge because of fears and insecurities. Most times the hero rejects the call to stay in the safe Ordinary World. Before giving up on the challenge, the

We Tell Stories is talks about stories of our ancestors and our traditions. The book “Borderlands” by Anzaldua shows that traditions can be easily broken in order to fight for one’s future. If no one is supporting that decision, it is essential that people continue with their gut feeling. In the book “borderlands”, Anzaldua stated that if breaking traditions is the correct decision, then people should follow that decision. At the end of the day, the correct decision is going to be yours and it is your future. When people are forced to do certain things, they end up hating that decision and resent the person that forced them to take that decision. Traditions are very old and sometimes old does not mix well with modern

Stephan King, an American author of horror, supernatural fiction and fantasy novels, shares his thoughts on writing and how to become a good writer in the article named “On Writing”. According to him, the secret to being a good writer is in the writing and reading itself. Per Mr. King, one needs not only to write and read, but to enjoy doing it. As he wrote, there are no short cuts or easy ways to become a good writer without writing and reading a lot. Reading of books whether good or bad will help the future writer to find and develop his style. Per Mr. King the badly written books were of more help to him; reading them helped him to find out what mistakes not to make in his own writings. He wrote how reading a poor prose as Asteroid Miners showed him what not to do in his books. The author wrote that it is one of the first books he read and it was kind of an inspiration for him to start writing. King wrote, after he finished the book he said to himself “I can do better of that.” Even though the book was bad it was a very important part of his development as a writer.

This week’s Core Friday was not a lecture, but a documentary named The Pluto Files, which was coordinated by one of Core’s co-coordinator, Tom Hothem. The purpose documentary was that Pluto lacked a well-defined criteria to determine if it was or was not a planet. The documentary followed Neil Tyson as he traveled to different states in finding out the truth and views about Pluto being a planet and not a planet. There were many controversies about this topic when it was concluded that Pluto would no longer be considered a planet. This issue relates to how we must evaluate the Drake Equation in the Quantitative Essay. It connects because both lack a well-defined criteria that allow us to determine what is and what is not. It makes us question

Stephen King finds writing to be natural as long as you don't dig for it. Usually it can take Stephen King about three months to write a book just about a season. What stephen king means about “dig” the writers must grab tools from their own toolbox to bring light to a story. It must be realistic or relic to something from a pre-existing world. This idea helped stephen to succeed with his career. Stephen can't stress this enough in order to achieve greatness, you have to stop all distractions. For instance television, phones or any electronics should be out of sight. Accordingly stephen found it best to find an area with doors, close doors to help inspire writing. If you don't have the time to read then you don't got time to write or the tools

The intricate and tedious craft of writing has many aspiring youths dreaming of harnessing the magical skill of language. However, many are not given the practical advices or the teachings that will really help them in narrowing their weakest points and making them better. Stephen King, one of the most iconic writers of the horror genre alive today would be an ideal canidate to pursue for advice on the craft.

The writer’s face-to-face interview with Seth at Comic Con 2009 was not effective. The reason it was not effective are for many reasons. For starters, the writer asks Seth on his second question if he believes if “Wimbledon Green maybe, could be a movie, right?” ( (00:00:14-00:00:16).

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