On Writing
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Imagination In Writing
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Sep 07, 2019 08:43AM
In the beginning of On Writing, King starts discussing his early childhood as an "attempt to show how one writer was formed." From pretending he was in a circus and dropping a cinder block on his foot to playing in the forest with his big brother Dave, King shows us where his imagination as a writer first began to grow and how some of his earliest memories pop up in his writing.
"Our new third-floor apartment was on West Broad Street. A block down the hill, not far from Teddy's Market and across from Burrets Building Materials, was a huge tangled wilderness area with a junkyard running through the middle. This is one of the places I keep returning to in my imagination; it turns up in my books and stories again and again, under a variety of names. The kids in It called it The Barrens; we called it the jungle." -Page 30, On Writing
▪️Do you find yourself returning to certain places in your imagination when writing? Why do you think that is?
"Our new third-floor apartment was on West Broad Street. A block down the hill, not far from Teddy's Market and across from Burrets Building Materials, was a huge tangled wilderness area with a junkyard running through the middle. This is one of the places I keep returning to in my imagination; it turns up in my books and stories again and again, under a variety of names. The kids in It called it The Barrens; we called it the jungle." -Page 30, On Writing
▪️Do you find yourself returning to certain places in your imagination when writing? Why do you think that is?
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