Stephen King is a highly successful and popular author. He has written many stories and novels using what he calls “ 22 lessons on How to be a Good Writer”. There is strong evidence of Rule 8 “Avoid adverbs and long paragraphs with no flow”, Rule 10 “master the art of description”, and Rule 11 “Don’t give too much background information” in his stories “ The body” and “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”. In these stories, it is clear that he takes his rules seriously. King doesn’t like adverbs, he says ”the adverb is not your friend”. He believes that a paragraph should flow, and rhythm. The Body shows how he doesn't use adverbs, he doesn't describe anything with short phrases or adverbs. “ In the place where we were standing, early spring rains had washed part of the embankment
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The Body is great for that because you meet the kids but you don't know their background right there, it goes with the stories. Some in the beginning some later.“Teddy and Chris and I were up in the club on that Friday morning, glooming to each other about school being so near and playing cards and swapping the same old travelling salesman jokes and Frenchman jokes.(chapter 2)’’. He names 3 kids and then goes on to tell us about other things , not who each kid is and their life in the story. He is gives a little background in Shawshank before he gets into telling about everything else “In all my years at Shawshank, there have been less than ten men whom I believed when they told me they were innocent. Andy Dufresne was one of them, although I only became convinced of his innocence over a period of years. If I had been on the jury that heard his case in Portland Superior Court over six stormy weeks in 1947-48, I would have voted to convict, too.(Page 3)” It's like a tease; he wants you to read more into
The Body is great for that because you meet the kids but you don't know their background right there, it goes with the stories. Some in the beginning some later.“Teddy and Chris and I were up in the club on that Friday morning, glooming to each other about school being so near and playing cards and swapping the same old travelling salesman jokes and Frenchman jokes.(chapter 2)’’. He names 3 kids and then goes on to tell us about other things , not who each kid is and their life in the story. He is gives a little background in Shawshank before he gets into telling about everything else “In all my years at Shawshank, there have been less than ten men whom I believed when they told me they were innocent. Andy Dufresne was one of them, although I only became convinced of his innocence over a period of years. If I had been on the jury that heard his case in Portland Superior Court over six stormy weeks in 1947-48, I would have voted to convict, too.(Page 3)” It's like a tease; he wants you to read more into