Stephen King's On Writing, and more ramblings

When Stephen King's book On writing came out way back in 2002, I gobbled it up like a hungry child.  I mean this is Stephen King we are talking about, the be all to end all!  If he's talking, and your a writer, listen!  I am only 95 pages into it now for the second time, and I love it to smithereens!

I forgot to mention I finished J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy, it was what I call a slice of life story...or a true to life story.  Very real worldish.  I loved it.  It made me laugh and cry.  It was like being a fly on the wall and peeking into everyone's lives without them knowing it.  and who doesn't want to do that?  Right?

And my copy of The 100 Year Old Man who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared arrived.  I'll start that later, right now I'm into On Writing.

He starts the book by letting us know early on that it isn't an autobiography, but there is an awful lot of his life in there.  Maybe not a complete autobiography but a good glimpse into his life.  It's certainly interesting seeing how his fame came about.  He writes the book not like it's a chore, but rather like the reader and himself are sitting down to tea and he's having a conversation with you.  Very casual and chatty, but not too chatty that it's annoying.  I think knowing Stephen King's fame now makes it hard to believe he struggled to get published so it's a real breath of fresh-air to know that he struggled too.  Not that I want anyone to struggle, but you know what I mean, right?

One of the things in this book that he says is to never write for the money, but write because you love it.  I know someone who tries to write according to what is the 'in thing', and that baffles me.  I am NOT into vampires, although that is all the rage right now, but I am not going to try to write something I don't like because that would be easier to get accepted in this vampire-induced world.  Write what you love!  and most importantly write because you love to write, not because you are hoping that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. 

With that being said Of course I'm hoping to get published someday ;)  

If not then so be it...I'm getting free therapy sessions out of it.

I'm actually in the writing mood tonight, so I'm going to hit 'publish', and let this out into the Wild Wacky Woo-universe (that's what www stands for, right? Right?...yeah I thought so.)

~R