Stephen King Everything You Need To Know About Writing Analysis

Stephen King, in "Everything you need to know about writing", gives a brief background on his experiences and how he came to know this information. King first gives a brief summary of his own article. Before he lists the steps, he gives a small introduction about how this will only help if you really listen. Then, he gives a considerable number of ideas in list form of how to write successfully. My own analysis on King's paper is that it's about a little of his past and contains some really good ideas on how to become a successful writer. King writes about how he came about this information on writing successfully. First, King wrote a satiric newspaper about his teachers, called The Village Vomit. He exclaims, " In this little …show more content…
When writing a paper, King states that typing double space helps the paper look neater, but also keeps your paper from having a lot of marked upped areas. An example for this would be in any essay writing for school situation, teachers are always asking for that MLA format because it looks nicer, is used in college papers, and is easier to read. Another good idea is to never look at a reference book while doing the first draft. This is the great idea because it keeps you from losing your train of thought. I know many times I have gone to look up a certain word or get lost in looking for synonyms of a certain word and soon forget the main idea of the sentence I was writing. Even though King gave some good, helpful ideas, there were some that didn’t really correlate. The eighth idea from King's list, "ask yourself "am I having fun?" Not very helpful there. The reason I think so is that mostly for me I don’t like to write a paper unless it's fiction or from my own perspective. Another idea is the first one--"be talented" I do not agree with this idea because not everyone is writing to be talented; it's just to pass a class, not to determine if you are good or