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Book Review. Stephen King’s “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craftâ€. By Mameve Medwed. There’s no disputing Stephen King, the king of bestsellers, can write. …
Book Review Stephen King’s "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" By Mameve Medwed
There’s no disputing Stephen King, the king of bestsellers, can write. What’s more, and what’s new, is that he can teach you how to do it. In the process, King makes mockery of that old bromide, those who can, do; those who can’t teach. For the wannabe novelist, the publishing hopeful, for any student of literature, for all King’s fans, for readers everywhere, On Writing mines a writers’ lode of advice, humor, entertainment, and inspiration. In gritty, pull-no-punches, lose-the-euphemisms, ban-the-adverbs language, King brackets the central section on craft with personal history. "This is not autobiography. It is… my attempt to show how one writer was formed. Not how one writer was made. I don’t believe writers can be made." Still, this writer’s beginnings weren’t auspicious: A hardscrabble Maine childhood; a father who left when he was two; no money. When measles and ear infections kept him out of the first grade for nine months, his mother gave him a quarter for each of four stories about a bunny named Mr. Rabbit Trick. "That was the first buck I made in this business." In high school– "Dogpatch with no sense of humor"–, King reported on sports for the local newspaper. "When you write, you’re telling yourself the story," his editor instructed. "When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story."
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