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Author: Stephen King

About the Author: Stephen Edwin King was born in Maine on September 21, 1947, to Donald and Nellie King. (Stephen) lived without a father in his childhood, when his father went with the excuse that he would buy a pack of cigarettes and then ran away to leave the mother by raising (Steven and his older brothers in adoption) and to begin his journey with his mother across the United States, until he ended up in the city (Maine), where The mother started working as a cook in an institution for people with special needs, while (Steven) devoted herself to studying and his favorite hobby.. Reading.. (Stephen) joined Lisbon Falls School and graduated from it to join the University of Maine, and it is mentioned that he was an active student at that time, He joined the Student Union, and began writing a series of weekly articles in the college magazine under the name (The Compass of Maine Campus) in which he attacked the war against Vietnam, refusing that America should enter a war in which it had no right, as he said, and he continued this activity until he graduated from the university in 1970, He turned from a student to a teacher at the university, and he got some changes, including high blood pressure, poor eyesight, and a hole in the eardrums!! But the university not only left him with all these diseases, but also got acquainted with his wife, Tabatha, for whom he worked throughout his studies in a clothing store, and began selling some short stories for magazines, until he was able to marry her in 1971 and then began publishing his books and novels that met Very popular among horror fans.

On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft book pdf download By Stephen King

Some thirty years ago, as a young English professor, I observed that Stephen King was our era’s Dickens. Hooo boy. But let’s say it again, to brush the cobwebs off our beloved literary relics. There’s a dissertation waiting to be written (or lolling from a shelf in the LoC) comparing King to Dickens. King is not a great writer, but he is far better, or certainly was in his prime, than he gets credit for. On Writing attempts to explain why and how he is a good writer. Hence the memoir element and the craft element.He doesn’t have any new “magic feathers” (as he loves to put it) for aspiring writers, just the same unwelcome news that you have to work, and work hard, and enjoy the work. That eliminates most of the folks on the long side of Sturgeon’s Law. (As king puts it grimly, you can’t make a good writer out of a bad one, or a great one out of a good one, but you can improve.) What he has to offer is a fresh, entertaining voice affirming what most serious writers would have told you, if they took the question seriously. And a refreshing “Emperor’s New Clothes” view of the posturing that passes for literary skill. We are welcome to sit in awe of Joyce, but let’s not take too seriously his spending an entire day selecting “seven words,” ok? No wonder Ulysses took twenty years to write. Writers write, aesthetes imagine writing. King is a writer. If you want to be one, you’ll have a better chance of making a living if you write.This isn’t a great book on the writer’s craft. I’m not sure there are any; it’s a bit like expecting Michelangelo or Houdon to explain sculpture. They don’t explain sculpture because they are busy doing it. What King has to tell you boils down to what John Gardner had to tell you, and both of them had the good sense to remind us that being told what to do will never replace doing it.

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