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Linda Shelnutt, April 15, 2006

Riding Right Brain Chaos. Honed, Heavy Horror

What admire most about this author, which was evident in this book is his regenerating honesty, his uncanny originality, and his demand of himself to toss reader boredom into a black hole and perform, within his printed words, 24/7 without fail. Also love the way he sincerely and humbly exposed his respect for his wife.

Leave it to King, The Master, to write this semi-autobiographical expose on authorship craft in a more intriguingly unique organizational setup than anyone else could conjure or dare. Leave it to Him to force (or else) a (sort of) "how to" book into mesmerizing entertainment, to step into the job with a horrific grab about a kid suffering ear drum puncture, and to coerce an anomaly of styles and content to coalesce into a gestalt of genius which WORKS, period.

How can a book on writing be riveting??

King includes only those salient parts of his personal history which have contributed to his writing career. He includes only the necessary elements to "teach" how to spark and stir creative fires. He includes only the necessary keys to his success (amazingly, he does know what those keys are).
I was impressed with King's exposure of his method of writing from a SITUATION rather than from a precise PLOT outline; I still find myself chewing on that daring technique (though I do still appreciate a strongly plotted story).


What I believe On Writing has exposed better than many writing ?how to? books is tapping into the Right Brain. As I?ve observed the styles of many authors of novels, they each seem to be almost ?designed? by DNA to work in different precise balances of Right/Left Brain. The Left Brain wants steps, plots, outlines, plans and structure to be elaborately perfect prior to that leap into the ozone. The pure Right Brain wants only the chaos of riding a storm of the absolute unknown, describing it as it explodes into the presence of present time, constantly changing, churning. That, my dears, is horror itself. And fun. That?s the fountainhead.

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