<story><title>Stephen King: “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”</title><url>https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/135/King_Everything.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scott_s</author><text>If you enjoyed this, read King&amp;#x27;s book &amp;quot;On Writing&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s half memoir, half an essay on writing for a living. The memoir part is interesting because he&amp;#x27;s had an interesting life, and it&amp;#x27;s closely tied to his writing career.&lt;p&gt;The writing part should be interesting to anyone who: likes reading fiction and thinking about how it is created; likes writing and has spent time about how to do it well; has spent time thinking about how to a particular thing well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jalanco</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been years since I&amp;#x27;ve read it but &amp;quot;On Writing&amp;quot; is still one of my favorite books of all time.  It&amp;#x27;s worth reading whether you write much or not.  His description of the time he was struck by a van (and nearly killed) while walking down the road near his home with his head in a paperback book is alone worth the read.  He said the guy driving the van was reaching into a box of raw meat and tossing chunks to a dog in the back of the van and didn&amp;#x27;t see him walking on the side of the road.  He said it was like a scene from one of his novels.  I recall that he also goes into some detail about how he struggled through a long period of near poverty with his wife Tabitha always supporting him and staying by his side.  So she deserves tremendous credit for his success.  For me the book was more about persevering through the struggle to create in general.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stephen King: “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”</title><url>https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/135/King_Everything.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scott_s</author><text>If you enjoyed this, read King&amp;#x27;s book &amp;quot;On Writing&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s half memoir, half an essay on writing for a living. The memoir part is interesting because he&amp;#x27;s had an interesting life, and it&amp;#x27;s closely tied to his writing career.&lt;p&gt;The writing part should be interesting to anyone who: likes reading fiction and thinking about how it is created; likes writing and has spent time about how to do it well; has spent time thinking about how to a particular thing well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text>Parts of this article are repeated almost verbatim in that book. (That&amp;#x27;s a compliment, not a complaint. It&amp;#x27;s a fantastic book. Anyone who wants to write for a living, and most people who do not, should read it.)</text></comment>