My 20th Post!!

      Yesterday, I finished reading On Writing and this is post #20! It was a special part of the book (On Living: A Postscript) about the time he almost died. It was pretty tragic and sad. He was going on his daily walk and then something terrible and unexpected happened. A man, driving out of control, hit King in his blue van. He's hit hard and when he wakes up or after his break of memory, Bryan Smith walks up to him that help's on the way. He went up to a store to get one of those "Marzes-bars." Strangely, this reminded King of one of his book characters. Funny, isn't it? How characters in books are so much like real people we know. Anyway, he's taken to a hospital to deal with his near-fatal injuries. It turns out that Smith's estimates of injuries were conservative: his lower leg broken in 9, not 5 places. But, things could've been worse, if he landed on the sharp rocks near him.
      King started writing this book in 1997 but, he took a break from it because nonfiction isn't really his thing. He finished it in 1999. So, write about what you like. I understand why King loves to write  so much. It helped him heal in the hospital. It wasn't life for him but, it was a back to life for him. He wrote and even finished this book in that time. It really helped him because it was fun and it brought him to a fun and brighter place. And, he doesn't do it for the fame or money; he does it for the enrichment of readers' lives and for plain fun. He said something that Foster from HTRLLAP said: if there's an important prop you want to bring up, mention it early on. It was so familiar and then I remembered where I heard it. He gave us a passage and analyzed it(just like Foster did in HTRLLAP. It was called "The Hotel Story", a 1st draft he wrote. After you read it, there's the edited version: 2nd draft=1st draft -10%. First of all, he changed the name to "1408", the name of the "haunted" hotel room. Then he took out an adverb and changed Mr. Ostermeyer's name to Mr. Olin, shorter and better. He took out unneeded details and brought up an important prop(lucky Hawaiian shirt) from page 30 to the beginning. Well, anyway that's about it. I liked the book a lot, mainly because there was a memoir, a "toolbox", a part on writing and a part on how to live by writing, On Living: A Postscript. Bye!