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1. Stop watching television. Instead,read as much as
possible.
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Todos, they should read as much as the King takes a book with him everywhere
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2. Prepare for more failure and criticism than you think you
can deal with
King compare writing Section to coming the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub, because in
bothere's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt. Met only will you dochtourellbut
other people will doubt you, to" you write for print danter seu per sing,
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Oftentimes, you have to contine writing even when you don't feel like it. "Mapping
plece of work just because it's hest, thermally imaginatively, is a had
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3. Don't waste time trying to please people.
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4. Write primarily for yourself
You should write because it brings you happiness and fulfillment. As King say, "I did it
for the pure joy of the Bing And if you can do for joy. you can do forever.
Wiher Kurt Vonnegut perdelar insight olleet you care about and
which you in your heart feel others should care about he says. "It is this genuine
caring at your pares with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive
dement in your
5. Tackle the things that are hardest to write
The most important thing the hardest things to say writes King. They are the
hings you get anhamed became word diminish your feeling. Most great pieces of
writing are preveded with hours of thought. The King's mind. Writing is refined
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6. When writing, disconnect from the rest of the world.
Writing should be a fully intimate activity. Put your desk in the corner of the road
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You should maintain total peace between you and your work Writing a first draft is
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Due of the really bad things you can do to your writing in to deep the vocabulary
looking for long words because you're maybedebit ashamed of your short com.
King. He compares this mistake to dressing up a household pet in evening dothes
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8. Avoid adverbs and long paragraphe.
Asking emphasil times in his memoir. "the twinst your friend in fat.
De believes that the road to hell ispored with and compare them to
dandelions that in your lawn, Adverbs are worst after head and their home
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You should also pay attention to your paragraph.ro that they flow with them and
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rhythm of your story. Paraphs are almost always up for how they looks
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9. Don't get overly caught up in grammar.
According to King Writing is play about so, precision Language does
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should strive to make the reader forget that he or she in reading antory at all.
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10. Master the art of description
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Description begon in the water agitation, but should finish in the mater" write
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King. The important part in ting ergh, but limiting bow made you seg. Visualine
what you want your reader to experience, and then translate what you see in your mind
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Into words on the passe. You need to describe things in a way that will cause your reader
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11. Don't give too much background information.
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What you need to remember that the defence between lecturing about what
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you know and using it enrich the stories Xing. The latter is good. The former
hat. Make sure you really include details that neve your story forward and that
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Persiade your reader to continue reading
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If you need to do march, make sure it shows the story wrich belong
as far in the background and the back to you can get it." saying. You may be
strand by what you're ring. but your desig to care a lot more about
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15. Don't try to steal someone else's voice.
As Kingseys canaima banklike a crime When you try to win
there's style for any other than periyoulledaenothing but
pale imitations. This is because you can never try to replicate the way someone free
3. Don't waste time
and experiestruth, especially through surface-level lace at vocabulary and
primarily for your
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16. Understand that writing is a form of telepathy.
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*All the arts depend upon telepathy to some degree, but I believe that writing is the
prest distillat," King An inportant element of writing is transference. Your job
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ant to write worden the pape, but rather be trade the ideas inside your head inte
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17. Take your writing seriously,
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You can approad the act of writing with res, excet, hegess,
deeple says King. "Come to any way but lightly you don't want to take your
writing seriously, he suggests that you close the book and do something else.
14. Rotho you do no
As writer Susan Sontag way. The story must streven me. My heart should
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start pounding hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk
16. Understand that writings
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18. Write every single day.
Once I start work on a project. I don't stop and I don't low down un laborately
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Dore I start work on a project. I don't stop, and I don't slow down unilahlutely
we says Kingdom write evryday the characters begin to state of in my
mind... I begin to lose my hold on the story plot and pace."
3. Don't waste time
If you fail to write consistently, the excitement for your idee may begin to fade. When
the work starts to feel de werk. Kingdes the most the mouch of death
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19. Finish your first draft in three months.
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King likes to write to pepes a day. Over a three-ehson, that amounts to around
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18,000 words. The first draft of a book even a long should be more than
three months, the length of a "he way. If you send to longe your piece, King
old and
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20. When you're finished writing, take a long step back.
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King compares the writing and process to nature. When you write a book, yo
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22. Stay married, be healthy, and live a good life.
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