What Is Writing?

Stephen King

What Writing Is

The first thing that I notice about King’s writing is that he makes sure to set the setting extremely well. He mentions so many places and it immediately has my brain visualizing the words as if a movie is rolling by. Then he gets to talking about how people receive words and images. We did this with my team once. We all had to imagine an apple. Then they asked how many people saw a red one versus a green one, and there were those couple people that actually saw no color at all. So weird to me, but just shows that everybody’s mind is different and we all have our own perceptions. 

Toolbox

At first I did not understand the concept of the toolbox and how it related to anything. And then it hit me. It is no different than our very own liberal arts education. Although we are all studying one or two things, we are also learning a broad spectrum of categories. This is similar to the toolbox, how it has lots of things just in case. One of my professors once told me that you shouldn’t be a jack of all trades, but rather focus more on being excellent at one thing. I guess that would require just a small toolbox. 

My Thoughts

As I was finishing up reading, I suddenly got this feeling that I had been in the situation before. The words, and the rhythm seemed familiar. That’s it, the rhythm. The way the writing sets the stage, tells you how to feel and shows emphasis in all the right places. It was as if I was sitting back in band class listening to the instructor tell us how to play sheet music. I mean, music is also a form of artistic writing. Both are visual and provide the audience with emotion.