I have just lent ‘On Writing’ by Stephen King to a friend of mine; she is roaring through it from what she’s told me. I am reading ‘If you want to Write’ by somebody Ueland – it’s good, but it must be a publisher’s nightmare, because the author is promoting that idea that we can all learn to write, and that we all have something to say – we just need to find it. God help us. No wonder the world is so full of badly written drivel, and mundane conversations…

The Stephen King one is very good, which is why he is getting a new paragraph. I haven’t read any of his novels – too creepy and horrible for me. ‘On Writing’ however, was recommended to me. I wasn’t expecting much, but it is brilliant – he is very generous with his writing experience and advice, and includes great little (if that isn’t a contradiction) anecdotes from his life. He’s got a real bee in his bonnet about adverbs, she added unnecessarily.
By the way, did you know his first book was published because his wife hooked it out of the bin?

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