Stephen King holds the position that reading a bad novel can be just as useful for a writer as a “good writing school.” Being able to recognize “bad” writing in itself has many merits. He believes this because reading poor quality literature can teach someone what not to do in their own writing. This information can be used to craft more novel stories that don’t make use of tired tropes or trite concepts. A book that does many things wrong can be infinitely more helpful to a writer’s technique than
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In "Everything You Need To Know About Writing Successfully — In Ten Minutes‚" Stephen King describes all the process of how to write a good paper and a great essay. Stephen was born in Portland in 1947‚ and he started to write stories since he was a child. The boundary of his interest about writing began when he found a box of horror and science fiction novels in his aunt’s house. Since this event‚ he has had writing many novels‚ series‚ short stories‚ novellas‚ and screenplays that were
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The Actual King 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
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Stephen King is known as one of the greatest horror and gothic writers of our time. The reason for this is his ability to fuse the gothic elements created by stories such as Dracula or Frankenstein and todays horror. King has written hundreds of short stories but two in-particular “The Night Flier” and “Popsy” show his unique ability to combined gothic elements from the old literature with realistic settings and people of our era. One of his greater talents is being able to use gothic element
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The average nine year old has a panic attack when they lose sight of their family at the grocery store; now imagine being a nine year old lost in the isolation that is the mountains of Maine. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King is told in a third person omniscient point of view mostly following the main protagonist‚ Trisha McFarland. Trisha is a nine year old girl growing up in a broken home surrounded by a pugnacious teenage brother and a short tempered mother. Let’s not forget to mention
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Who loved whom more - Romeo or Juliet?Juliet’s love was more intense than Romeo.I believed this theory because at the beginning of the story Romeo was lamenting over a girl named Rosaline because he was uninterested in his "love."Juliet also was the one that told Romeo if he truly loved her that he would get married to her.Also if Romeo truly had loved Juliet he would never have kill Tybalt‚Juliet cousin. Juliet love was more intense because Juliet’s first love was Romeo.Unlike Juliet‚Romeo was
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Stephen king has published 200 short stories and over 54 novels. He has dozens of bestsellers‚ and a large group of fans spanning three generations and has an “inseparable” identification with horror. More so than any writer‚ or of previous generations‚ King has redefined horror‚ turning terror and its appeal into an expectation when you pick up his books. King dabbles in classical and post-modern form of macabre‚ and has even scattered
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Stephen King’s ’Ars Poetica’ on Horror In Stephen King’s non-fictional book‚ Danse Macabre‚ he views Lovecraft as a major impact in the field of dark horror fiction writing and also acknowledges the fact that King himself considered him as a major source of inspiration‚ which was embedded in his style of writing. When he reminisces about how he got introduced to the genre‚ he states that his first pick of the countless texts happened to be one of Lovecraft’s short stories. King mentions‚ that although
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ride breaks‚ yet people go anyway. This same concept can be said for many things‚ especially when it comes to Stephen King and his stories of horror. People know of the fear he can induce with his stories and their broad detail and interesting plot. Such as the short story‚ “Strawberry Springs” people who have read his stories do it to show that they can and that. “we are not afraid” (King‚ “Why we Crave” 1). The story itself has many deaths and a few in particular give out a gruesome end to the victim
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might see it as a research facility. Similarly‚ Charles Goodwin “Professional Vision” examines how professional scrutiny onto a subject in the domain of a profession will change the way that subject is viewed. On another note‚ Stephen Gould asserts in “The Mismeasure of Man” that scientific theories are a subjective interpretation of hard facts. In this paper‚ I argue that those with authority interpret factual information in a subjective way that aligns with their vision and satisfies their own objectives
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