It's an excellent book, and I highly recommend it, but it's also very personal and idiosyncratic in much of its advice. King is a writer of a particular type, a

It's an excellent book, and I highly recommend it, but it's also very personal and idiosyncratic in much of its advice. King is a writer of a particular type, and he's talking about the way he writes, which may or may not be the way you write (it's almost completely antithetical to the way I write, which is why I learned so much from it.)