Sometimes you have to crawl through a pipe of shit to come out a free person.
This image is from the movie "The Shawshank Redemption." I love this image. There is so much truth in it.
Stephen King, who wrote the novel on which it is based, also had to go through this pipe.
Every writer has to go through this pipe full of shit before he can be successful.
On his way through this chile telegram screening pipe, Stephen King learned a lot about writing and I have collected his 30 best writing tips for you.
These writing tips come from his book “ Life and Writing ” – a must for every aspiring author. And also required reading for bloggers .
Curtain up for Stephen King:
Writing tip #1) Good writing is not an explosion of emotions
Many of King's fellow students were caught in a cloud of romance, believing that good writing was spontaneous. Good writing was an outburst of emotion that needed to be captured immediately.
Serious art came… from somewhere out there.
King sees it differently. Good writing is hard work, where you struggle for clarity, the right words and the right images.
It is mental work. Not the work of some mystical gods.