Mirrored Madness: The Monster In Me

2 responses to “10 Essential Writing Tips from Stephen King’s “On Writing””

1. 

   Grace Isabella

   March 21, 2022 at 10:14 am

   I love that you just posted this! I am reading this book right now! 🙂

   LikeLike

   Reply
2. 

   Jeff Cann

   March 21, 2022 at 10:17 am

   I couldn’t read this post without subscribing, so I didn’t read it, but I’ve read On Writing. My brother, a college-level creative writing professor, recommended it to me. I found this so shocking I immediately bought the book. I can’t imagine my brother reading a Stephen King novel.
   I’m a big Stephen King fan, but I don’t necessarily consider him a great writer. He’s awesome at constructing plot and setting a scene, but he can be sloppy and he absolutely refuses to cut out all of his unrelated subplots that take the novel length from 350 pages to 550 pages. I often feel like he’s wasting my time. Also, I almost always skip his dream sequences which usually add nothing to the story.
   With that said, I used to have a framed list of King’s writing tips hanging in my bathroom. I found almost all of them to be spot-on.

   LikeLike

   Reply