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Being an aspiring novelist, I've read my fair amount of this 'how to write' stuff and invariably find it useless. King is the only person who actually makes it
by electromagnetic 16y ago
Being an aspiring novelist, I've read my fair amount of this 'how to write' stuff and invariably find it useless. King is the only person who actually makes it plain and simple and gives no bullshit.
There's little point in trying to be a liked writer, if you never publish anything for anyone to like, and there's even less point if you can't make money off of what you do publish to ever release enough material to get noticed enough to get liked or disliked.
My favorite thing of King's advice, and John Scalzi reiterates it in his own way: just get on with it and do the writing.
- daviding 16y agoThe main advice I took from this was 'Use less words'. I'd expand on that, but realize that's a bad idea...
- MartinCron 16y agoLawrence Block's books on writing, especially Telling Lies for Fun and Profit are at least as good as King's as far as being direct and giving no bullshit. I re-read it each time before I start a novel (I've finished three, started many more) and I take something new from it each time.