King's "On Writing" to Help My Writing

If Stephen King had a central theme throughout his memoir, it would have to be "keep it simple and basic." Much of his advice that I plan to incorporate into my memoir comes at the beginning of the second half of his own memoir. He references our writing to a toolbox and says the basic tools go on top: vocabulary and grammar. These are the foundations to our writing. He tells us to focus on using the vocabulary that we have and to avoid replacing our own vocabulary with bigger words. Along with using our own vocabulary, King stresses for the reader to get to the point and skip the "bullshit." Although he fails to follow his own advice, I plan to get straight to the point with my reader and avoid any unnecessary words, sentences, or paragraphs.