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On Writing	comment	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is a memoir by Stephen King, with a collection of essays about writing and about his life. It explains how he became a writer, and his philosophy.
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On Writing / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
On Writing / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Deconstructed. One of the girls who inspired Carrie was mocked for wearing the same clothes every day for several years, even as they started to wear out beyond repair because for some reason her parents weren't into buying shirts and dresses. Then after Christmas break, she came back with a new outfit, shaved legs, and a permanent. King said she looked "resplendent," but the girls responded by bullying her further. In the end, it didn't matter since she also had to wear them for the rest of the year and no one wanted to be nice to her.
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On Writing / int_42148628	type	Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory
On Writing / int_42148628	comment	Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: invokedKing promotes taking advantage of this in your own works; his message is, don't shoehorn in symbolism, instead look at your draft and polish up what naturally shows up as a recurring theme to make it really stand out. He uses the recurring motif of blood in Carrie as an example. In short: If you see not-actually-symbolism showing up prominently, encourage it to grow and make it actual symbolism.
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On Writing / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
On Writing / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In real life, the words that changed King's career was learning that Carrie sold for $400,000 to the paperback publishers. King, at first in shocked, asked if it was $40,000. No, Steve, it was $400,000, with half of that going to you.
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On Writing / int_5f7beffa	type	Spared by the Cut
On Writing / int_5f7beffa	comment	Spared by the Cut: in-universe, King was prepared to kill Paul Sheldon in Misery. Then he said Paul surprised him by serving as an Author Avatar and fighting for his life.
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On Writing / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
On Writing / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: One of the real-life girls who inspired Carrie did this when she married and had two children. She apparently went into the basement and shot a bullet into her abdomen. King suspects that her being bullied in high school had something to do with it.
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On Writing / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
On Writing / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: King says that he became this after he got drunk for the first time as a seventeen-year-old. He didn't kick it until his wife and friends staged an intervention.
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On Writing / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
On Writing / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Dave had one moment in childhood where he convinced "Steve" to work on a giant magnet that was made with a more powerful battery and a lamp cord. When King plugged it in, it ended up blowing the power out in their building and the one next door. Miraculously, the boys weren't caught. King made a newspaper called The Village Vomit, satirizing all of the teachers and giving them embarrassing aliases, which he not only distributed at school, but put his real name on. One of the teachers who was a hardass found out and busted him. He had to serve detention and was denied an Honor Society position.
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On Writing / int_9b60b728	type	Addled Addict
On Writing / int_9b60b728	comment	Addled Addict: King freely admits that he was not functional as an alcoholic or a cocaine addict. He started blacking out, throwing up whatever was in his belly, and spending the rest of the next day hungover. While his output was sometimes good, the quality wasn't.
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On Writing / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
On Writing / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Lampshaded when King was doing The Stand; he said he started taking long walks, and would explain later why that little habit got him into trouble. The C.V. reveals that when he was taking a long walk, a truck hit him, and nearly killed him.
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On Writing / int_ad1ae986	type	Know Your Vines
On Writing / int_ad1ae986	comment	Know Your Vines: Once when King was a child, he had to use the bathroom while he and his brother were playing. Dave told him to wipe his ass with nearby leaves, which turned out to be poison ivy. The end result was he spent several weeks getting calamine lotion and bath treatments. This was referenced in Carrie where the same thing happens to her.
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On Writing / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
On Writing / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: King did consider going to Vietnam, but his mother persuaded him to go to college instead. It turned out that he was ineligible for the draft anyway because of his poor vision and punctured eardrums.
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On Writing / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
On Writing / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: Steve and Tabby were taking shifts at the laundry and donut shop respectively; even though King got a teaching job, it was more work than for the salary he was paid. After he sold Carrie and received $200,000 in royalties, they were soon able to buy a proper house and take care of all their expenses.
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On Writing / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
On Writing / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Principal Higgins was this when King got drunk for the first time. He saw the kid post-hangover and merely warned him not to catch the "bug" again, since he didn't want to ruin the class trip for everyone. King's guidance counselor. He heard about the Village Vomit incident and knew that King was a budding writer. So he reached out to the local newspaper and found an editor wanting someone to cover school sports events. While King wasn't a sports fan, he said his mentor ended up teaching him important writing lessons, and he got paid five or six dollars a week for his time.
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On Writing / int_dd9fba61	type	A Rare Sentence
On Writing / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: When discussing grammar, he reminds readers a sentence is just a subject and a verb, so "Plums deify!" is a complete sentence no matter how nonsensical it sounds.
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On Writing / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
On Writing / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: The way that King describes his eardrums being lanced to drain fluid comes off as this. To him, it felt like he was being punished for being sick; he describes that a nurse lay him on a cot with an absorbent paper, the doctor prepared a long needle, and stuck it in his ear. With no anesthetic! King thought they were done after two trips, and during the third one he absolutely refused to behave because the doctor was a liar and incompetent in his view. Modern medicine recommends anesthetizing pediatric patients before installing ear tubes to drain the fluid, making "small incisions". His mother had the excuse that she didn't know any better but to listen to the doctor about her sick child because it turned out the real problem was tonsillitis and the doctor for that surgery was smart enough to sedate King first.
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On Writing / int_e2f1ae4b	type	You Won't Feel a Thing!
On Writing / int_e2f1ae4b	comment	You Won't Feel a Thing!: King hates this trope in real life. As a child, his mother took him to a specialist to treat his infected eardrums. He believed the doctor twice that the large needle going into each ear wouldn't hurt. The third time he was taken, a nurse and his mother had to hold him down. After the truck accident, which led to King's lung collapsing, the paramedics had to reinflate it by inserting a tube. They reassured King he wouldn't feel anything. He braced himself, and indeed felt some pain.
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