Jack’s Reviews > On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft > Status Update

The story is progressing very nicely. I learned about Stephen King’s initial motivation for getting into writing—which was when he showed his mother the book he copied by writing onto paper—and how fulfilling the look of pride for her son’s genius was for a short moment, until he told her that he copied it from the book he was reading. I learned about his brother Dave’s biweekly newspaper (hectograph->press

A lot of empty pages, so I haven’t actually read a full chapter, but it’s still good. It was cool finding out that Stephen King was apart of a band. It makes me think about the kind of lore I want.