Fear & Feathers
“I’m
convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for
one’s own pleasure, that fear may be mild. . . If, however, one is working under deadline—a school paper, a newspaper
article, the SAT writing sample—that fear may be intense. Dumbo got airborne
with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb
or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do
that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.”
—Stephen
King, writer and author of On Writing: A memoir of the craft (2000)
• Editorial Comment: Swish and flick. Magic indeed.
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