Grading: On Writing

[Aaron]

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On Writing
Scribner, 2000


Round 2, Group III

Grading for this Book is Closed

Entertainment Quality:
2.357142857 (Graded B)

Informative Strength:
2.571428571 (Graded B+)

Lasting Impression:
2.357142857 (Graded B)

Overall Average Grade:
2.428571428 (Graded B)

Combined Round 1 & 2 scores:
6.489795917

[Aaron]

bump

[mae]

BAB here.

[jayson]

CBC

It did very little for me as entertainment or educational material. I hoped for more.

[William50]

CBC

It did very little for me as entertainment or educational material. I hoped for more.

Agreed

[mae]

I liked it a lot. It was short but to the point. Perhaps King has a fat memoir in him yet, but this was very good, I thought.

[Jean]

CBC

It did very little for me as entertainment or educational material. I hoped for more.

Agreed
::nods::

[alinda]

I borrowed and returned this book with out finishing it :(

[obscurejude]

I'm not ashamed to say that I disagree with everyone except Pablo. It got straight A's for me.

I've had the misfortune of having to read a lot of books on writing in grad school. The majority approach is to treat writing in a way that is emotionally detached in order to remain objective. King writes because he has to, and its his passion that is so compelling to me. The second half had so much gravitas because the practical aspects of writing are served by the desires he outlined in the first half. There's nothing wrong with the desire to be technically efficient, but at the same time, the most technically savvy writers remain terrible if they aren't motivated in the purest of ways.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

BAB for me. I thought the editing and rewriting exercise with 1408 at the end was very informative. I find most books about the craft of writing to be quite dull, with all the passion removed. This book was actually quite enjoyable to read.

[Sam]

I went ABA. I enjoyed King's autobiography and found the whole thing very informative for me. It has remained one of the few books about writing that made any impression on me.

[ManOfWesternesse]

Never read (and don't really plan to).

[Daghain]

I'm not ashamed to say that I disagree with everyone except Pablo. It got straight A's for me.

I've had the misfortune of having to read a lot of books on writing in grad school. The majority approach is to treat writing in a way that is emotionally detached in order to remain objective. King writes because he has to, and its his passion that is so compelling to me. The second half had so much gravitas because the practical aspects of writing are served by the desires he outlined in the first half. There's nothing wrong with the desire to be technically efficient, but at the same time, the most technically savvy writers remain terrible if they aren't motivated in the purest of ways.

Marry me?

Straight A's for me too, for much the same reasons as Ryan had. :D

[Patrick]

Ok, it got from me one ay, and then it got another ay making it two so far, and then one more extra ay there at the other end.

[MonteGss]

I believe I gave it straight As too. I don't remember 100% if that's true... but I love the book.

[Melike]

BBA

[BillyxRansom]

ABA