After turning out nearly three dozen fiction bestsellers, Steven King recently wrote a non-fiction book on a topic he knows so well. On Writing isn’t a long book, nor is it obnoxiously short. The book is part memoir, to show us what life events and influences got him going, and part important rules for writers.
I quite enjoyed this book although I’ve only read one of King’s novels (The Stand) all the way through. He writes in a breezy, friendly style. I took it as meaning, hey, this works for me, why not see if any or all does you any good.
King doesn’t spend much ink retelling what Strunk and White covered so well but does strongly recommend that writers become familiar with that book. He’s also extremely anti-adverb while admitting that he can’t always force himself to remove all the adverbs that somehow still end up in first drafts, even after all these years.
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