Stephen King On Writing

I have found On Writing to help me look at writing in a way that I hadn't quite defined before. King approaches writing almost as writing music or creating any other form of art. Also, he points out some writing strategies that I think helped my identify the problems with my own writing, for example, the section on using the passive voice or his multiple warnings about adverbs. I also loved his comparison of writing to telepathy. These are all fresh views of writing I had not deeply considered before. I think it is helpful that he uses examples to demonstrate how the techniques he describes really do improve writing. The most important section for me was his description of the "toolbox". This is an interesting concept and "knowing what tools to use" is something I will consider in the future when I write