Some advice on writing from Steven King: Write while the idea is fresh.

I collect books about writing. Many of them are terrible, but I’ve found some good ones, and Steven King’s “On Writing” is pretty good. It starts as an auto-biography of his writing life, then moves to practical advice for working with words. Thought you’d like this paragraph. I think it’s true:

 

“Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I don’t write every day, the characters begin to stale off in my mind-they begin to seem like character