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by geocrasher 1356 days ago
Stephen King, On Writing. No matter what your writing style is or what your subject matter is, be it fiction or not, this book will turn any writer into a better writer.

Note that I didn't say it'll turn any writer into a good writer. It'll turn them into a better one. A good writer could become great and a terrible writer can become slightly less terrible. It's all subjective.

One thing I've learned is that some people have a way with words and some just don't. And there's nothing wrong with that. But all of us need to write at some point and that book will definitely help because it helps the person focus on what's most important to the story rather than what's the most important to the writer.

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That's not how that works. Writing is about practice, repetition and feedback. Improvement is gradual and lifelong to say that only certain kinds of people get better is a pretty bad take. Anyone can become competent at writing. It's just many do not have the prerequisite requirements to begin improving on certain parts and never learn of their deficencies or how to fix them.