Tuesday, December 01, 2015

The Art of Writing and the Art of Life




Off the Shelf
By Sarah Jane Abbott    |   Monday, November 30, 2015
I have two confessions to make. First, my greatest aspiration is to someday be a novelist. Second, Stephen King is my favorite writer—but this is not really a confession, as I’m proud of it and everyone who knows me knows this (and probably wishes I would stop talking about him already). 
Given these facts, it is nonsensical that I had not read Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft until now. I dove into the book a couple of weeks ago and when I finished, I wiped a couple tears from my eyes and started again from the beginning, hoping to soak in every word. That is not exaggeration or melodrama; that is how affecting this book is. 

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