Stephen King's On Writing: A Life of Writing

In his memoir, Stephen King stresses the importance of constantly being in the process of writing in order to be a good writer, and, as is evident throughout On Writing, King practices what he preaches.
I think that constantly writing has just become the natural order of things for King after so many years in the habit: King began writin when he was five or six years old, and hasn't quit yet.
King states in the book that he writes three hundred sixty four days per year (three hundred sixty five on leap years). He doesn't even take off for his birthday. I think that when you write with that much consistency (and read at least fifty books per year-- King tallies around eighty per year), you devekop a keen sense of awareness of what writing works and what has to go.
King continues to write, even after his accident-- a testament to his adament stance on the importance of making writing into a daily regimen.
King even asserts his opinion into his novels. In Bag of Bones, my favorite of all of his works, his main character is novelist Mike Noonan. When asked why he insists on writing every single day, Noonan replies simply, "So I won't forget the story."
Stephen King writes every day, and it seems to work for him. He has written around fifty books, and is considered one of the best-- and most popular-- authors of his generation. If you're a budding writer, you could do worse than to take King's approach to the writing life.  As King says in the close of his memoir, "Writing is... as much the water of life as qny other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."