On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Half autobiography, half toolbox: the most useful book ever written about writing by someone who does it for a living.
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Le mot de POP LIVRE
You do not need to have read a single Stephen King novel to get everything out of this. The memoir half is genuinely moving; the toolbox half is the part you will underline.
Présentation
Stephen King wrote the first half of On Writing before a van nearly killed him in 1999, and the second half while learning to sit up again. The result is two books in one. The first is a memoir: a childhood in poverty, the rejection slips nailed to the wall, the trailer where Carrie was written, the years lost to addiction. The second is the toolbox — his practical, unsentimental account of what the job demands: read constantly, write daily, kill your adverbs, cut ten per cent, tell the truth. Published in 2000 by Scribner, it has become the book working writers keep on the desk. This Hodder edition adds contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King.