when you write a story, youre telling yourself the story. gould said. when you rewrite, your main job is…

when you write a story, youre telling yourself the story. gould said. when you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. gould said something else that was interesting on the day i turned in my first two pieces: write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. once you know what the story is and get it right—as right as you can, anyway—it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. or criticize it. if youre very lucky (this is my idea, not john goulds, but i believe he would have subscribed to the notion), more will want to do the former than the latter. source: king, stephen. on writing: a memoir of the craft. new york: pocket. 2002. 47. print. what is kings main purpose in this text? to persuade to instruct to reflect to entertain

when you write a story, youre telling yourself the story. gould said. when you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. gould said something else that was interesting on the day i turned in my first two pieces: write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. once you know what the story is and get it right—as right as you can, anyway—it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. or criticize it. if youre very lucky (this is my idea, not john goulds, but i believe he would have subscribed to the notion), more will want to do the former than the latter. source: king, stephen. on writing: a memoir of the craft. new york: pocket. 2002. 47. print. what is kings main purpose in this text? to persuade to instruct to reflect to entertain

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The text shares writing - related advice from Gould as remembered by King. It gives instructions on the writing and rewriting process, like writing privately first and then making the work public. There is no attempt to persuade, reflect in a deep - personal way, or entertain.

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to instruct