I think this is a good book for the aspiring writer. King talks about carving out the story and discovering all of its facets, instead of outlining. And I see the arguments for outlining versus discovering the story. However, I don't think King can write every kind of story. Mostly he writes the kind of stuff he writes, and it's great stuff.
Subtitled 'A Memoir of the Craft', the first part of this book told King's life story. Though interesting, I was a bit disappointed until he got into the section called 'On Writing', in which he gave tons of practical advice; all kinds of stuff your creative writing professor won't tell you. King would know, he was once a high school english teacher.
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