Adding to my pervious post: Note to Self (1/2) here are more note on On Writing by Stephen King.

Plotting

• Stephen King distrusts plot
• Lives are largely plotless
• Plotting and spontaneity of real creation are not compatible
  [ I feel the same way. When I’m forced to turn in a plot, I feel my characters are puppets/flat/dead when I want the characters to tell me where to go and they have the right to change their minds. ]
• Stories are found things and writers discover and excavate

Description

• How-to + how-much-to
• Must learn from reading and writing a lot
• First visualize what you want readers to experience, then transcribing it into words
• begins in writer’s imagination but should finish in the reader’s imagination

Theme

Ask yourself

• Why bother writing it?
• What is it all about?

Writer’s job

• 1st draft (during/just after): read over and decide what it is about (might be hidden until now)
• 2nd draft: make the theme even more clear

Revision

2nd draft = 1st draft – 10% (word count)