"On Writing" Is, from my current understanding a book about the evolution and creation of a writer, and writers craft itself. I can tell you truthfully that I was skeptical, even as I bought it, perhaps especially then, that I had used a ten of my precious remaining dollars to buy something not immediately on the need list.While I'm not far in, I am enjoying it in an entirely different way then I have other books. It is, as much as I've encountered much like sitting down with someone and having a conversation. It feels intimate, as he speaks about sections of his life, his inspirations and hardships. In one smaller passage he talks about copying the words out of a comic, and using his own descriptions in some places to form his first story.
While one of the stories before had left my jaw slackened, this did for a far different reason - he was, for all intensive purposes tracing. Something that, really fits in my mind as a sometimes needed step for many young and budding artists.
The book really sets at ease a lot of my internal issues or questions about the makeup of actual authors, and while I may not be interested in his horror novels, or thrillers, I find myself still interested, very much willing to listen to the creation and thoughts of this person.
Hopefully I'll be able to stick with it.
