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This is a must read book if you want to be a writer. The very first part of the novel is a biography of his life and how became the writer you know him to be today. The latter half of the book discusses writing type things and how he crafts a story. This part of the book may be interesting to some but I think the best part of the book is the first part when he talks about his life and the road to writing fame.

I find Stephen King to be very inspiring to me anyway. He knew he wanted to be a writer but the road getting there was tough especially when the rejection notices started coming in. He saved them and still does. But really who is going to reject Stephen King? What really inspires me is that he was rejected but still he muddled forward. He kept writing and kept at it until his break finally came.

Remember the short story, "The Mangler" he actually worked in a laundry and wrote on break times and lunch times. This is another thing I fins inspiring is because he wrote on top of other jobs that were just bread and butter and jobs. It goes to show that if you really desire to be anything that if you keep at it, that eventually your vision of yourself will become reality.

Did you know when he finished "Carrie" he thought the entire manuscript was garbage and took it and threw it in the trash. His wife Tabitha comes along, reads the manuscript and sends away to publishers. Well the rest is history. Even, who I consider, one of the most influential writers of my lifetime considers his work to be nothing special if not downright bad. As an aspiring writer myself, I look to this book as a piece of inspiration and when I want to give up, I look to this book and think to myself "if Stephen King can do it, so can I" Quite often I mind myself looking to Stephen King for the power to keep going with my own struggle of trying to be published.

Of course, this book can good if you enjoy reading about the person behind the stories you read. Either way one can draw the parallels between some aspects of his life and the stories he writes. It is an interesting and fascinating book on Stephen King's life and his writing.

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