Yesterday after leaving the office I swung by a local book store and picked up Stephen King’s On Writing. I brought it home and devoured it. The first 100 pages are a memoir about what has brought him to this point and after that the next 200 pages are all about the craft. I can’t recommend this to anyone with an interest in reading or writing enough.
I certainly had love for this line that opened the writing portion of the book.
“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair, the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with first clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.” - Stephen King
Yesterday after leaving the office I swung by a local book store and picked up Stephen King’s On Writing. I brought it home and devoured it. The first 100 pages are a memoir about what has brought him to this point and after that the next 200 pages are all about the craft. I can’t recommend this to anyone with an interest in reading or writing enough.
I certainly had love for this line that opened the writing portion of the book.
“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair, the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with first clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.” - Stephen King
This is how you write a review. We need more music reviews from guys like Patton Oswalt or more Wired articles from Warren Ellis. Till then journalism is dead. Now someone get me some motherfucking pancakes.
I just wanted to drop a line for my friends over at King Bone Press (Jon and Bob) and let you know about their upcoming Bandthology. The anthology is going to be 36 pages and it’s a mash up as simple as peanut butter and chocolate; music and comics.
I know that I personally grew up playing in local bands here in Dallas and I found it very interesting to learn when I met Bob and Jon that they had both played in their own D.I.Y. groups growing up as well. Something about us creative types wanting to not only write/draw but to make music as well seems inescapable.
I know that the artists Monsta from The Guys project I am working on did a pin up for the book and it looks amazing.
Make sure to jump over here and make a donation to receive a copy of this anthology and help support the DIY community.
Till then I will leave you with the cover for the book drawn by the amazing Ryan Kelly of Local fame.
