On Writing

I am reading an interesting book that has sat on my shelf for about 10 or 12 years and has remained untouched for that length of time. It is Stephen King's On Writing. I have enjoyed the majority of his work over the years but most everyone always seems to want to know how someone who is successful at his craft does it. I compare it to me writing my history papers in college. I wrote them, my professors approved of them, I made A's on most all of them, but what worked for me may not work for someone else. Stephen King is a well read individual, spouting off authors I have never even heard of, but what works for him may not work for me. For one thing, fiction is hard to write. I have tried. You have to have the ability to create much along the lines of Dr. Frankenstein. You have to be able to create people and towns and families and stories that keep them all intertwined and all coming to a shocking conclusion. My book that I am working on, The Journey To The Abyss is part fiction and mostly reality but if anybody does read it, I am going to leave it up to them to figure out which is which. It is kind of like Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and part 50 Shades of Grey. A great storyteller always embellishes the truth just a little. These characters created themselves.