The Success Of A Good Writer In Stephen King's On Writing

turned to crime, drugs, therapy, and many other methods, some ways are good and some are bad. To deal with his issues and fears, Stephen King turned to writing horror stories. Through the character Jack Torrance in Stephen King’s novel The Shining, King is able to project his life as a writer, display the hardships he went through, and reveal his writing persistence in the novel. Without knowing any background on Stephen King, some of the connections between him and The Shining may not be clear

Meghan DeWinne Mr.White GT English III 2nd Period 10 September 2017 King, Stephen E. Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of The Craft. NY, Scribner, 2000. In Stephen King's autobiography, On Writing: A Memoir of The Craft, he draws the reader into his world by giving them a taste of his upbringing and outside influences to explain exactly how he became a successful author. He has published dozens of top selling fictional novels throughout his career, and because of this it is safe to assume he

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

Stephen King’s View on Fame Stephen King is a contemporary writer who has written many books in his lifetime. In his novel Misery, he discusses the consequences or bad sides of being famous. This normal average man, other than being a world famous author, acts as a regular individual in his daily life. In Stephen King’s Misery, King uses Paul Sheldon, as a doppelganger of himself to describe the horrors of being a famous person in the worst situation, showing readers that it is not so bad to be

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King  What does writing do for you? For some people writing is a way to de-stress, a form of escape, and sometimes it even acts as a door to a brand-new world or fantasy that can only be opened through imagination. Stephen King is one of the most eloquent and idiomatic authors of his time. He provides his readers with excessive imagery and descriptions that assist the reader to fully encompass the story. In his book, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft,

Allie Balzer Writing 121--2017-2018 Telepathy at its Finest 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. Before completing this book, writing to me was just a pain. I remember this one quote that said, “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write

order to convince them of his argument. By appealing to the readers’ ethics, they can see how trustworthy King’s words are and then can let themselves be persuaded by his matter-of fact tone and professionalism in writing. King is a realist, which means that he almost always represents things as they really are, which profoundly helps establish his honest persona. Most of Stephen King’s writing represents more than one tenet, as his stories that he tells about his childhood and road to recovery from

“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising," some great words from Stephen King, shows us the independence of being a writer with the many faults and achievements. These words mean something to a lot of people, which can lead them to a positive path to know that the great Stephen King, can mess up occasionally as well. The people

“By the time I was fourteen … the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and kept on writing.” This quote from Stephan King really hit me. The famous, successful man that we all know for his works “Carrie” or ‘The Shining”, had once been rejected. It’s crazy to think that someone so successful had once been struggling. Maybe I choose this quote because that’s how I’m feeling right now and the quote gives me some

Stephen king (known for a lot of people as the horror master), was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. Son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King who got divorced when he was very young, therefore he and his brother started dividing their time between Connecticut and Indiana during their teenage years, but finally king decided to move with her brother and mother in Maine definitely, There he graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966. After that king went to the University of Maine