The End (Seminar Note, Wasn't really sure how else to format it BUT DONE I THINK)

What a journey, another novel read word by word. A book on writing, called On Writing by one of the largest known authors in this generation. Stephen King knows what he's talking about but has to make simple decisions just like the rest of us, a choice that often starts with a name. I believe that a good name depends on the object or idea being named; it wouldn't make sense to give a long complicated Latin name to an organism that is very common and talked about frequently. When naming novels and stories I've always tried to find a balance between capturing the audiences attention first thing, giving hints to the plot line while not giving away the entire purpose of reading it, but there is always room for interpretation. My editing process has always been choppy, depending on the target audience and how my mood has shifted. I have always found when I wrote a first draft that I was writing for myself; the words flowed easily and I never really needed to think about who would be reading my words. But as the editing process rolls around I have to take a step back, to take out all the overly detailed words that garble and confuse the reader about something simple and the connections that you may think the reader may make but need to ensure that they do. It's so simple to get lost in one's writing, to see connections among words that others never would. I feel as though you should be able to comfortably read your story out loud without getting tired of specific words, phrases or character traits. The words shouldn't feel clumsy in your mind or mouth, if they are there is probably lots of description and useless words. But how does one deem a word or idea useless? doesn't that depend on the main character or from the perspective that you are writing in? If I'm walking down the street compared to another individual my eye can and will be caught be entirely different things depending on what I'm thinking, feeling, who I'm with and what time period I find my mindset in. All in all I feel as though I've learned a great deal about the writing do's and don'ts while reading this book and it is another Stephen King novel added to my list of those read.