When writing your first draft, King says, never look at a reference book.
You want to write a story?
Put away your dictionary, your encyclopedias, your World Almanac, and your thesaurus.
Better yet, throw your thesaurus into the wastebasket.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.
There are no exceptions to this rule.
You think you might have misspelled a word?
Did you think it was going to go somewhere?
you’ve got the option to check it … but later.
When you sit down to write, write.
These days, few of us use a physical thesaurus, so maybe just un-bookmark that thesaurus website.
