Tag: on writing

4 posts since May 2012 RSS

  • November 23rd, 2012 6:31pm

    Try any goddamn thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn’t, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

    — Stephen King. “On Writing”. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)

  • October 21st, 2012 10:15pm

    In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it ‘got boring’, the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

    — Stephen King. “On Writing”. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)

  • August 21st, 2012 12:06am

    This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do – not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less the bullshit.

    — Stephen King (via trevoredwards)