Tuesday, April 7, 2015

TOW #18 The Writing Life By: Stephen King

Stephen King, renowned horror writer, has written this piece to share his experiences with writer’s block. King demonstrates this through a personal experience with is by appealing to our sense of pathos. He describes himself at a park with his corgi. Occasionally he will get a person talking to him about his dog, but overall nothing significant about him being a famous author ever comes up. It appears that this article is meant to discuss writer’s block and what it is exactly. He describes the muse that motivates and inspires people to write as something that can be there then disappear almost instantly. He further shows this through his use of allusion. He references the book Catch-22, and how it took several years to release the sequel due to the author suffering from writer’s block. Furthermore, Stephen King describes his piece in a very neutral way. He does not have a set opinion he is attempting to push. No negative imagery, nor positive. He sets out a very dull and grey view of how a writer lives. No high points or low points are necessarily expanded upon. He merely shows his everyday life. It’s almost as if King is attempting to describe the life of a writer as a quaint, and boring one. Nothing great about it.

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