Stephen King continued his advice by describing the process in which he uses to write his own novels. Stephen King advices writers to use active verbs rather than passive, as well as paying attention to paragraph structure and the proper use of fragments and run-on sentences.
A writer should strive to expand their knowledge of grammar in order to avoid common mistakes that make writing weak.
Grammar, Stephen King believed, was much more important to the writer's arsenal. However, Stephen King cautions against actively increasing a writer's vocabulary, claiming that being honest would be better than sounding intelligent.
Stephen King believed that vocabulary could be as simple as the writer wants, or more complicated if desired. The most important of these are grammar and vocabulary. Stephen King began with what he called the writer's toolbox and the things it should contain. Stephen King offered a great deal of advice to aspiring writers. Soon after, Stephen King became sober and came to a place in his life where he finally understood the priorities in his life. Eventually the situation became so difficult that Tabitha King gave her husband an ultimatum. Along the way, Stephen King also added cocaine to his addictions. Always a heavy drinker, Stephen King soon became an alcoholic, wrongly believing the alcohol helped his writing. Riding on the success of his first published novels, Stephen King threw all his creative energy into writing. This novel turned into Carrie, Stephen King's first published novel. Stephen King's wife, Tabitha, found the story in the trash and insisted her husband continue writing it. However, after writing several pages of this possible novel, Stephen King found that he disliked his main character and did not have the knowledge necessary to make the story believable. One day Stephen King got the idea to write a story about a young woman with telepathic ability. While working hard to provide for his family, Stephen King would continue to work on his own stories and novels, a few magazine publications helping to keep his growing family afloat. At the same time, Stephen King met the woman who would be his wife.Īfter college, Stephen King had a number of laborious jobs before getting a job as a high school English teacher. In college, Stephen King continued to send stories to publications, achieving publication on several occasions. Stephen King helped his brother publish a small family newspaper, worked on his school newspaper, and got himself into trouble publishing and selling his own stories. When Stephen King was in high school, writing had already become an important outlet for his creativity. Stephen King struggled as a child, missing a whole year of school due to chronic ear and throat problems. Stephen King and his family moved frequently in his early years in order to be closer to family members. Stephen King was the child of a single mother. On Writing is a poignant, educated, and inspiring book, a book that is sure to help hundreds of struggling writers and motivate still others who picked up the book not for inspiration, but curiosity. Stephen King then moves into the mechanics of writing, offering advice and insight into a successful career that has worked so well for him but remains distant for thousands of others. Stephen King writes about his childhood and young adulthood, relating stories that made him the writer he has become. On Writing is part biography and part how-to.