On Writing - Stephen King
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Written by Stephen King
Format: MP3
Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King’s On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. You are right there with the young author as he is tormented by poison ivy, gas-passing baby-sitters, uptight schoolmarms and a laundry job nastier than Jack London’s. It’s a ripping yarn that casts a sharp light on his fiction. This was a child who dug Yvette Vickers from Attack of the Giant Leeches, not Sandra Dee. “I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash”. But massive reading on all literary levels was a craving just as crucial, and soon King was the published author of “I Was a Teen-Age Graverobber”. As a young adult raising a family in a trailer, King started a story inspired by his stint as a caretaker cleaning a high-school girls’ locker room. He crumpled it up, but his writer wife retrieved it from the trash, and using her advice about the girl milieu and his own memories of two reviled teenage classmates who died young, he came up with Carrie. King gives us lots of revelations about his life and work. The kidnapper character in Misery, the mind-possessing monsters in The Tommyknockers, and the haunting of the blocked writer in The Shining symbolised his cocaine and booze addiction (overcome thanks to his wife’s intervention, which he describes). “There’s one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing”.
King also evokes his college days and his recovery from the van crash that nearly killed him, but the focus is always on what it all means to the craft. He gives you a whole writer’s “tool kit”: a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph and literary models. He shows what you can learn from HP Lovecraft’s arcane vocabulary, Hemingway’s leanness, Grisham’s authenticity, Richard Dooling’s artful obscenity, Jonathan Kellerman’s sentence fragments. He explains why Kellerman’s Hart’s War is a great story marred by a tin ear for dialogue, and how Elmore Leonard’s Be Cool could be the antidote. King isn’t just a writer, he’s a true teacher. –Tim Appelo, Amazon.com
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This post has 8 comments
August 10th, 2013
Not to whine, but can I get some seeders in here?
My torrent program says 3 weeks! And i’ve been sucking kilobytes through a straw at 0.2k a MINUTE!
Help a novice writer out and seed please! Will seed forever if done so.
May 28th, 2016
Same, dudes where are these 15 seeders???
September 23rd, 2016
Excellent book :)
November 28th, 2016
Yeah wish I could get a seeder..this sounds interesting.
October 24th, 2017
Short and snappy: 1gb? How is that?
October 22nd, 2019
Can someone please seed this.
August 3rd, 2020
*holds bowl higher*
a seed, a seed, take pity, a seed.
December 6th, 2020
If anyone is able to download, and share it would be much appreciated.
Here is the link, but i can´t download it.
https://icerbox.com/olKaKYOW/OnWritingAMemoiroftheCraft.rar
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