Stephen King: What Makes To Be A Successful Writer?

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Everyone has a rough life! For me and Stephen King, we have faced and continue to face almost the same rough experiences. Everyone finds another thing to work on to forgot about their problems; that is what Stephen King did. In Stephen King's memoir, he replaced his problems with writing. Being a writer, he experienced bad events that gave him the opportunity to write about what he faced. By knowing the answers, to these are questions: “What must a writer do or experience to write well?” “Why must one write?” “What benefits come from writing well?” you will become a better writer. This memoir relates to Stephen King and his comparison is being applied to his life and literary works because it made him a successful writer. A writer must face with bad experiences to get passion or motivation and write about. You do not have to experience it. It can happen to another person, but you can learn from what the other person faced through. Stephen King said,
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of the style) and then
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King and I have different reasons to be a great writer. Stephen King wants to be an excellent writer for his financial success and for his happiness. For me, I need to be a successful writer to do well in school, to have good grades, to get into college. Stephen King had problems with drugs, alcohol, surgery and problems with his childhood gave him the need of writing. I need to become a successful writer to gain the dream of becoming a doctor and doctors need to be good writers. When I’m writing I have a lot of problems with my grammar because in my school in Elementary they did not cared if you did not understand it. They only cared that if some kids knew it was fine. My first langauge affected my grammar because sometimes I mistakes I think of spanish when I am writing and that confuse me because I write the wrong verbs and

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