King's "On Writing"

Stephen King's On Writing... A Memoir into King's life of writing

This memoir was not like most that I have read in the past, in this particular memoir King spoke in a very conversational tone and was easy to relate to. Unlike most of King's fiction, this book was something different. One because it is in fact a memoir and two because it can serve as a manual for many writers.

The most important and influential pointer I got out of this memoir is that writing has to be a passion for the author, you must connect with your writing. Not because of the money or the fame, but because you cannot do anything else, because if you cannot write you can not function, you cannot be yourself.

My particular favorite "pointer" as I would call it is when King describes his writing area/ desk that he writes at. This is my favorite because I can relate the most to this. Everyone laughs at me because in order to write a good paper for any class or for anything I have to be sitting in my same chair at the table in the den, facing the same blank wall. Its kind of funny but at the same time so true! People like 'so true..it's funny' moments and King nails it with that one.