A Memoir Of The Craft Summary By Stephen King
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Stephen King's On Writing “A Memoir of the Craft” is a book written and edited by the man himself Stephen King. Stephen King was born in Maine in 1947 and it was then, when a world-renowned writer was born. Unlike this book his work usually focuses on Horror as well as a little supernatural, science fiction, fantasy and more. Not being a horror book King strays from his origins to write a memoir and a teaching book all in one. On writing is a book containing scenes of King's life. The first half of the book he shares what has happened in his life to help him prosper to be a writer. From long dreadful hours of working as a janitor, laundress and gas attendant; to becoming a father, an english teacher and on to selling more than 350 million copies of his books. He shares how he started his career, finding the one thing he was quite good at and transforming that knowledge and sharing it with others, so others can also be great writers as well. …show more content…
He had been working as a janitor at the time and didn't know it just yet that he would soon think of a book to write about the day he had asked what the “two extra metal boxes on the tile walls--unmarked and the wrong size for paper towels were.” Not until he had changed jobs and was working in the industrial laundry is when he came up with the idea for Carrie. Combining the blood of a girl going through puberty, hatred from oblivious girls and the works of telekinesis. He had turn a very simple question into a well written selling
Stephen King's On Writing “A Memoir of the Craft” is a book written and edited by the man himself Stephen King. Stephen King was born in Maine in 1947 and it was then, when a world-renowned writer was born. Unlike this book his work usually focuses on Horror as well as a little supernatural, science fiction, fantasy and more. Not being a horror book King strays from his origins to write a memoir and a teaching book all in one. On writing is a book containing scenes of King's life. The first half of the book he shares what has happened in his life to help him prosper to be a writer. From long dreadful hours of working as a janitor, laundress and gas attendant; to becoming a father, an english teacher and on to selling more than 350 million copies of his books. He shares how he started his career, finding the one thing he was quite good at and transforming that knowledge and sharing it with others, so others can also be great writers as well. …show more content…
He had been working as a janitor at the time and didn't know it just yet that he would soon think of a book to write about the day he had asked what the “two extra metal boxes on the tile walls--unmarked and the wrong size for paper towels were.” Not until he had changed jobs and was working in the industrial laundry is when he came up with the idea for Carrie. Combining the blood of a girl going through puberty, hatred from oblivious girls and the works of telekinesis. He had turn a very simple question into a well written selling