Stephen King On Writing Sparknotes

By choosing strong and well-thought out words, it allows the readers to better pay attention to detail and recollect more material. Influential diction causes the readers to become reeled in and intrigued in the novel. The narrator writes, “You’d fine the high school phenoms running circles around the overweight has-beens, guys who’d effortlessly played above-the-rim years ago now trying to catch their breath and salvage what was left of their once-stylish games” (Moore 44). Using words like ‘phenoms’ and ‘has-beens’ causes the author and the reader to relate. The narrator creates a connection between himself and his audience by using words his readers can understand and empathize with. Wes says, “You’d find the drug dealers there...smelling like a fresh haircut and with gear on that was too fine for sweating in” (Moore 44). Moore uses imagery and tugs at our senses to allow his audience to better picture the situation he is explaining and describing. Imagery, along with strong diction, generates a more engaging novel. The storyteller’s sentence structure varies from short to long. This allows the reader to stay interested and keeps the author’s sentences flowing easily. Wes Moore, the narrator, is guilty of inspiring and influential diction and

The first writer's workshop lesson was focusing on adding more adjectives to our writing. The goal was for students to be able to take a simple sentence and add adjectives and make the sentence more interesting. This is an important strategy to help students take short sentences and make them longer. If we teach children to add adjectives to their writing they can make their sentences longer and add more detail. This will make their writing more interesting to read because they are using more descriptive language. Good writers use adjectives to entertain their reader and offer more visualizations. This is very important for our young writers to learn and develop on throughout the year.

In writing this paper, I revised my narrative essay by adding foreshadowing, changing some tense, and deleting unnecessary sentences. I found that these changes made my paper a higher college read.

Instead of using psychological terms and over explaining his points, Stephen King uses an informal writing style. King uses this style to appeal to a wider audience and make his points easier to understand. There are often paragraphs that are one whole sentence long. This keeps the flow interesting without taking away from the material that the author wishes to cover. King also uses a simple vocabulary by choosing noncomplex words

There are thousands of great American Literature writers, one in particular is Stephen King. He is one of the greatest horror writers of all time, and has sold millions of copies of his books. (About the Author.). Today he is one of the most popular and best selling writers. He combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into most of his stories. (About the Author.). His writings are so very powerful because he uses his own experience’s and observations from his everyday life and creates his one of a kind stories. King’s legacy as a best selling horror, psychological fiction author is associated with his unique writing style. He uses many different elements in order to scare his readers, the elements include real life scenarios, supernatural elements and fear of the unknown. (About the Author.). He commonly uses vivid detail in which is set in a realistic everyday pace. He is most commonly known for his novels, in which, he eventually expanded his horizons to different types of writings such as children’s books, short stories and even movie scripts. (About the Author.). Growing up was extremely hard on him and his family. At a very young age his father abandoned him. In his teens, he got

According to journalist William Zinsser, a writer must be clear in order to write well. A writer who fills his/her pages with pretentious words, flattery prose, or intricate syntax clouds up his/her sentences and prevents the reader from fully understanding the message at hand. Therefore, Zinsser contends that good writing is achieved when bombastic language and confusing words are avoided. Indeed, stripping “every sentence to its cleanest components”, removing excess verbiage, and molding words into coherent, simple structures prevents the reader from getting lost in a whirlwind of words and thus allows him/her to fully grasp the author’s message (Zinsser 6). In short, clarity leads to writing that is done well.

The 100 is a post-apocalyptic science fiction survival TV drama about a group of adolescent including Clarke Griffin, Bellamy Blake Octavia Blake Jasper Jordan Monty Green, Raven Reyes, John Murphy who become the first few from a space habitat called ‘the Ark’ to come back to earth after 97 years of a nuclear war that wiped out most humanity. The series follows these characters as they come face to face with various challenges in order to survive. “They discover not all humanity was destroyed and some survived the apocalypse: the Grounders, who live in clans, locked in a power struggle; the Reapers, another group of Grounders who have become cannibals; and Mountain Men, who live in Mount Weather and locked themselves away before the apocalypse.”

In literature, descriptive writing is a useful technique, especially since it allows an author to describe how he or she truly feels about a particular subject matter. Descriptive writings bring literary works to life; it is vivid, especially since the readers are able to visualize specific information in their

In truth, not everyone can appreciate Stephen King’s writing style. He uses cinematographic effects such as ellipses: “Yet so many shoes … and all the clothes … he can see a DVD package…” (Herman Wouk is still Alive) and “‘I’m sure those folks had…’ He trailed off” (Cookie Jar). Also, he uses an unconventional writing style by bifurcating sentences with parentheses and

His choice of words makes his writing unique and interesting that makes you want to keep reading. The vocabulary he uses matches perfectly with one another and creates this life and excitement. Such as, in Cycle of The Wolf. For instance, he wrote, “...but it's too late and his scream is lost under that snarling roar that rises in a sudden, chilling glissade to a howl.” The words snarling, chilling, and glissade all go nicely together and create this tingly feeling of being able to hear the frightening, blood-curdling scream and howl that King wanted to achieve. Just from that sentence you are latched on to the insane world of Stephen King. As critic Joshua Rotham said, “There are lots of writers who tell it like it is, but only a few who, with such commitment and intensity, tell it like it isn’t. King takes the weird and gives it

Stephen Edwin King was born September 21, 1947in Portland, Maine, U.S. He is an American novelist and short-story writer whose many novels and story collections, and the numerous films adapted from this large body of work, have established his reputation as the leading author of horror fictions in contemporary literature, and with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century.

Writing is an important aspect of human culture. Ever since we learned to communicate, we struggled to remember or did not want to forget certain events. Thus we created pictographs and symbols, but then symbols evolved into writing. Then writing became more than just history, it became: dialogue, memoirs, grammar, editing, a window to the imagination. In its own way, writing is a language all on its own. Hence fiction writing, untrue stories, can used to prove how well an author is able to interpret his or her imagination onto paper. Thus books are sometimes interpreted as windows into the author's imagination. Stephen King is a clean translucent window when it comes to writing. Yet, Stephen King has many reasons behind

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Making jokes is the best way for people to create connections. However, a person’s sense of humor makes a huge difference in joking telling because jokes can offend people and has various consequences. Making jokes about people is common between friends because a man can understand that his friend only wants to get a couple laughs out of him and that his joke shouldn’t be taken to heart. In the short story “Nobody Knows,” a man, who clearly has not mastered English, comes up to a random man asking him to explain a fight to a nearby cop. When the man says, “Tell the cop that guys like that, guys that don’t know the scene” the first impression of him is that he’s a regular at the bar and that the other man was new to the bar. This kid starts

I wish you the best on your journey to becoming a writer. One day we’ll see your name on books! How exciting.