{"id":17122,"date":"2020-11-08T12:25:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T16:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=17122"},"modified":"2021-12-16T16:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T20:28:37","slug":"stephen-king-writing-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/stephen-king-writing-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King: Writing Style Follows 2 Simples Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For Stephen King, writing style is part of his success. But what is King’s writing style? Does he follow typical writing rules<\/a> about style? What are they? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many other successful writers, Stephen King’s writing style uses tools like avoiding adverbs and passive tense in order to create great writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Stephen King, writing style, and how to hone your craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Stephen King: Writing Style<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stephen King’s writing style is uniquely his own, and in his memoir On Writing, he suggest that you learn your own writing style instead of trying to follow a “Stephen King writing style.” With that said, you can follow some rules for stronger writing. King has two glaring dislikes: passive tense and adverbs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avoid Passive Tense<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Passive tense arranges words so that things are done to subjects. \u201cThe car was started by the driver.\u201d \u201cThe discovery was announced with great fanfare.\u201d \u201cThe meeting is scheduled for seven.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these sentences sound weak. In active tense, the subject does the action. \u201cThe driver started the car.\u201d \u201cThe grandmaster announced the discovery with great fanfare.\u201d \u201cThe meeting\u2019s at seven.\u201d Don\u2019t these sentences feel better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is common enough advice, but why do writers still use passive voice? Because it\u2019s safe.<\/strong> Passive voice avoids the need to assert a subject doing a deliberate action. Passive voice is the refuge of timid, uncertain writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avoid Adverbs<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. They usually end in -ly, as in \u201cTom started the car dejectedly.\u201d Stephen King’s writing style avoids adverbs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like passive voice, adverbs are a sign of weak, timid writing. Writers often use adverbs to make sure the reader knows exactly what is happening. The side effect of adverbs is to blunt the power of the verb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortform example: Take this passage from Twilight<\/em> by Stephenie Meyer, a notorious abuser of adverbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018As if you could outrun me,\u2019 he laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He reached up with one hand and, with a deafening crack, effortlessly ripped a two-foot-thick branch from the trunk of the spruce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 I\u2019d never seen him so completely freed of that carefully cultivated facade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This passage could be rewritten without adverbs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018As if you could outrun me,\u2019 he laughed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He reached up for a two-foot-thick branch on a spruce and ripped it off with a deafening crack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…I\u2019d never seen him so free of his facade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of using adverbs, make the context clear so that the adverb becomes unnecessary.<\/strong> If Tom is starting the car, the prose preceding it should be so clear it makes \u201cdejectedly\u201d redundant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortform example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom sat for ten minutes, imagining the look on his boss\u2019s face as he pounded out the email at 3AM that morning. He sighed and started the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poor writers also use adverbs in dialogue to break up the monotony, as in \u201c\u2018Put down the gun,\u2019 she pleaded tentatively.\u201d Delete the adverb, and as a default use the simple \u201che said, she said\u201d construction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear Drives Bad Writing<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The pattern underlying bad writing<\/a> is fear\u2014fear that your reader won\u2019t understand you, or fear that you sound like a simpleton.<\/strong> Have confidence. You probably know what you\u2019re talking about, and good writing is about how well you tell the truth<\/a>, not how fancy your language is. This is one part of Stephen King’s writing style that might be worth considering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paragraphs<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Paragraphs are the next level of organization above the sentence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paragraphs communicate rhythm and intensity. Detailed expository writing has dense, long paragraphs. Easy fiction has short paragraphs and airy dialogue. When you open a book, you can tell at a glance what the writing will be like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In expository writing, paragraphs tend to have a logical structure\u2014a topic sentence, followed by sentences that support the topic sentence. This is a methodical structure that keeps the thinking organized and the writing focused on the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fiction, you have more freedom. You can use paragraphs to communicate a rhythm and beat, to enhance character descriptions or actions, to transition. You can break up a cohesive paragraph into multiple short paragraphs to transmit the right energy. A paragraph can be as short as a single word or as long as a dozen pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paragraphs may communicate more than the sentences they contain. Thus King considers the paragraph, not the sentence, as the basic unit of writing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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