One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because youвЂ™re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. Put your vocabulary on the top shelf of your toolbox, and donвЂ™t make any conscious effort to improve it. The commonest of all, the bread of writing, is vocabulary. To write to your best abilities, it behoves you to construct your own toolbox and then build up enough muscle so you can carry it with you.Д¬ommon tools go on top.Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. You can come to the act with four fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair вЂ“ the sense that you can never completely put on the page whatвЂ™s in your mind and heart.Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers.ДЄny claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. The idea that creative endeavour and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.Running a close second was the realisation that stopping a piece of work just because itвЂ™s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively is a bad idea. The most important thing that he learned when writing the book Carrie White was that the writerвЂ™s original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the readerвЂ™s.StephenвЂ™s wife Tabby never voiced a single doubt. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. It belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Once you know what the story is and get it right. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. вЂњWhen you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the storyвЂќ вЂњWhen you write a story, youвЂ™re telling yourself the storyвЂќ. Even if your heart feels ashamed, or if you keep hearing their voices on your head, keep trying.

People will try to make you feel lousy about it.

When doing your own thing, people may think or say that you are wasting your God-given talent.

When presenting your work, run the extra mile and make it look good.

Get used to rejection, and keep trying.

Your job isnвЂ™t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Where do ideas come from? ThereвЂ™s no Idea Dump, no Story Central good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun.

If you are an aspiring writer, get rid of your television.

When creating his own stories at a young age, he would pass them on to his mother and get feedback from her. At some point, he began to write his own stories. As a young kid, Stephen would copy entire comic books word for word. Yet it is by no means unusual equipment large numbers of people have at least some talent as writers and storytellers, and that those talents can be strengthened and sharpened.

The equipment comes with theВ original package. Not how one writer was made.В Stephen doesnвЂ™t believe writers can be made, either by circumstances or by self-will.

The book is an attempt to show how one writer was formed.

The following points are my takeaways from this book on the latter. The book is part memoir andВ part practical advice to writers.

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