Stephen King's greatest achievement by far. After a serious accident Stephen, during his recovery, sat down and began writing what he believes makes a writer: the mindset, the skills and gives his own personal account on how he achieves the craft of writing.

Written as a half biography and half reference book it seems, the readers walks with Stephen through his troubles as a teacher desperately trying to write for a living to the dizzying heights of one of the most prolific and richest writers of the world. He talks of his drug addiction and how that affected him. He writes of his family and their support, whilst constantly offering advice to would be writers.

For my degree, this book was classed as recommended reading highlighting the gravitas of this work.

This book is a useful tool to the art of writing and a heart warming account of the man behind the horror. I hate his novels and short-stories, but this work shows a great beauty in the man that I could never find in his stories.