Accomplishments Of Stephen King

Stephen king is a widely successful author who has written fictitious horror novels that have been adapted into movies including classics such as the shining and it his writing was affected during his career as an author and childhood. According to Stephen king's description of his childhood on Stephen King.com, in his childhood, he liked reading horror books and seeing horror films which often, after a while these types of stories became his favorite genre and he started writing his own content. A biography titled king's accident declares the inspiration for his book The Dark Half, Another part of theStephen king's past that affected this book was that the books that he wrote writing under a false name that was much grimmer and had more

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Stephen King On Writing: A memoir of the Craft For a novice writer, one can only dream of publishing a novel, selling copies across the word, or being recognized for honesty and dedication poured into a story. Stephen King, across his writing career has achieved these dreams and accomplished scores further. King has published 55+ novels (some under the pen name Richard Bachman) and at least 200 short stories. He has also received numerous awards for his pieces, sold 350 million copies worldwide, and turned several of his stories into movies and television shows. Atop his many triumphs, King has maintained the same love forwriting that he began with. In his memoir, "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft", he allows the reader to understand the mind of a writing virtuoso whilst continuing an air of humility, humor, and personality. King explains to the audience, the reason why he began to write this piece. He states, "What follows is an attempt to put down, briefly, and...show more content...

Every Day he took a 3 mile walk around the rural fields. On the 19th of June he walked that same path did before going to the movies with his family. As always, he had to pass by a main road for a short stretch of the distance. Unbeknownst to him, Instead of paying attention to the road a Bryan Smith was paying attention to his dog, bullet, who was getting into a meat cooler in the back seat of his van. The vehicle came over the crest of a hill, swerved, and hit King. He is driven via ambulance to the nearest hospital, and then air lifted to a more advanced facility. King's injuries totaled: one collapsed lung, a shattered knee cap, an "exploded" tibia, a right knee split down the middle, "a serious derailment of the hip", 8 chips in his spine, 4 broken ribs, and 20–30 stitches on his scalp. As a result, King had five surgeries, spent 3 weeks in a hospitable, and wrote this memoir in a Get more content

Biography On Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, the son of Donald and Nellie Ruth king. His father, a merchant seaman, deserted the family in about 1950. His mother took a succession of low–paying jobs to support him and his brother, David. A lonely, rather introverted child, King invented a more outgoing alter ego – Cannonball Cannon, a daredevil who "did good deeds" – and derived other vicarious thrills from listening to tales of horror on the radio, reading such spine–tingling comic books as Weird Science, Tales from the Crypt, and Tales from the Vault. He also went to see science fiction and monster movies. In October 1957, the local theater manager interrupted a Saturday...show more content...

Stephen King was determined to make his own mark as a writer. While still a student at the local high school, he tried his hand at composing offbeat short stories. He never sold a single one, but he did win first prize in an essay competition sponsored by a scholastic magazine. He took time off from his studies to play on the varsity football team, and was, for several years, the rhythm guitarist in an amateur rock 'n' roll band called the MoonSpinners. After he graduated from high school, King attended the University of Maine at Orono on a scholarship. Majoring in English, he took creative writing courses and contributed a weekly column called "The Garbage Truck" to the campus newspaper. By the time he had obtained his B.S. degree in 1970, he had sold two stories – "The Glass Floor" and "The Reaper's Image" – to Startling Mystery Stories for $35 each. Over the next few years, he published short stories in Cavalier, Gent, Penthouse, and Cosmopolitan, but he earned so little money as an author, that he was forced to add to his income by working at such jobs as janitor, library aide, gas station attendant, and presser in an industrial laundry.

Discouraged and dejected by his