This book was recommended to me by a friend; I wasn't a huge Stephen King fan at the time (I am NOW). It really jumpstarted my novel writing. At the time I'd written pieces of several novels, and a bunch of short stories. After I read this I had the same thought: "I can do this," and I banged out a 150K novel in two months. I since have come to disagree with a lot of what he says in the second part of On Writing, but the main points can still take credit for getting me to finish two novels that were pretty okay (one of them even got me a bad agent, and almost got me a good agent).
Good info. It does give people confidence to give it a shot. It's a book on writing from someone who actually writes, and not a book from someone who only writes books on how to write.
I've read over a hundred books on writing since the early 90's when the Writer's Digest series came out The Elements of Fiction Writing. Stephen King's On Writing is still by far the best one and most beneficial to writers imo. It's literary gold!
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS That was over the course of 30 years. I started writing and trying to read everything I could on writing in 1989 when I was 17. I still have many print copies of those writing books I collected. Most of them are not much more than 100-200 pages so not a difficult book to get through. In the 90's I was obsessed with trying to get published, but I only made a few short stories into some small literary zines. My life took a major turn had a kid and was in a bad marriage for many years, so I didn't get to write much. Now my kid is grown and I have new supportive spouse. So a few years ago, I started writing again.
I also want to be a writer and I’m writing a fantasy book with my friend but I’m 14 and don’t know much about writing (although of course I read a lot) so your writing videos are a great help. thank you:)
nice video - i've never written a page but I picked this book up years ago and I remember it being inspiring and entertaining, he could convince anyone to give it a shot.
Can’t find an answer on the internet. But I seem to remember reading the first edition and it had a long section about his accident and recovery. Then I read a later edition and it was gone. Is this real or the Mandela Effect?
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This is the most spot on review ever.
This is the MVP book. Great video mate. I gotta re-read this one since i started writing this year.
You’re so close to 1000 subs! Keep up the good work Brian
Great review!
Awesome review. I'm definitely going to pick this up.
This book was recommended to me by a friend; I wasn't a huge Stephen King fan at the time (I am NOW). It really jumpstarted my novel writing. At the time I'd written pieces of several novels, and a bunch of short stories. After I read this I had the same thought: "I can do this," and I banged out a 150K novel in two months. I since have come to disagree with a lot of what he says in the second part of On Writing, but the main points can still take credit for getting me to finish two novels that were pretty okay (one of them even got me a bad agent, and almost got me a good agent).
Love to hear it bro, hope you are still writing
You don't get much views but you still do make videos. Really appretiate that. It's really helpful.
I read On Writing about three years ago. It helped me improve my own writing more than anything else I've ever read.
Dope
Good info. It does give people confidence to give it a shot. It's a book on writing from someone who actually writes, and not a book from someone who only writes books on how to write.
I've read over a hundred books on writing since the early 90's when the Writer's Digest series came out The Elements of Fiction Writing. Stephen King's On Writing is still by far the best one and most beneficial to writers imo. It's literary gold!
Darn. 100. Thats a lot. But good job
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS That was over the course of 30 years. I started writing and trying to read everything I could on writing in 1989 when I was 17. I still have many print copies of those writing books I collected. Most of them are not much more than 100-200 pages so not a difficult book to get through. In the 90's I was obsessed with trying to get published, but I only made a few short stories into some small literary zines. My life took a major turn had a kid and was in a bad marriage for many years, so I didn't get to write much. Now my kid is grown and I have new supportive spouse. So a few years ago, I started writing again.
I also want to be a writer and I’m writing a fantasy book with my friend but I’m 14 and don’t know much about writing (although of course I read a lot) so your writing videos are a great help. thank you:)
Wonderful. Glad to be of help. Keep up the writing and never give up!!!
Super nice. What kind of stuff do you write?
nice video - i've never written a page but I picked this book up years ago and I remember it being inspiring and entertaining, he could convince anyone to give it a shot.
It convinced me
Just bought the book. Thank you for the recommendation Brian.
Thank you too
Just got this book by fluke, gonna be a fun read.
250 page book. 75 memoir 75 how to write. That's bad math, Durfee. I'll give this book
a go.
How awesome is Stephen King
Can’t find an answer on the internet. But I seem to remember reading the first edition and it had a long section about his accident and recovery. Then I read a later edition and it was gone. Is this real or the Mandela Effect?
No one here is saying "they can't" read it. Raiders fan...........