Blog- What I have read so far

What I have read so far in the novel On Writing by Stephen King is a variety of his memoirs leading up to his inspiration for writing. Each of his painful memories including being stung by a wasp and then dropping a cinderblock on his foot as he pretended he was some sort of circus act. He had instances where he would copy out the “Combat Casey” comics and add his own details where he wanted. When his mother told him he was better than that and that he could create his own comic, he created a comic about “four magic animals who rode around in an old car helping out little kids. From the comic he made, his mother gave him a buck which was the first buck he had ever made in “the business”. The first story he sent for publication was to a magazine called Spacemen. His story was rejected but Forry, a literary agent who started the “short-lived but interesting Spacemen” kept the story. King wrote many stories that have been rejected by many publishing companies and would keep all the rejection letters tagged on his wall for motivation. As we kept practicing his writing skill with each story he would write, the publishing companies would start sending the work back saying things like “This is good, but it’s just not for us.”