Photo of Ray Bradbury. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
With the recent passing of the great Ray Bradbury, the internet –rather ironically– has found a way to recover a lot of nuggets of knowledge he provided throughout the years. In this particular case, his keynote speech at Point Loma Nazarene University’s Writer’s Symposium By the Sea features twelve pieces of advice vital to prospering and improving as a writer.
If you’re too busy to watch the entire 54-minute speech, Open Culture was kind enough to summarize his points.
Either way, if you are a writer of any level, genre or aspirations, it’s imperative that you check this link out. It may just change your perspective in this wonderful art that is literature. I know that was the case for me.
Credit goes to the great Jake Adelstein for sharing this link over Twitter. You can check his thoughts on Mr. Bradbury’s passing right here in his blog, Japan Sub-Culture Research Center.
Eat.Sleep.Write.Conquer.
-JP
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“It was a pleasure to burn,” remains one of the best opening lines to a book.
Indeed!
Thanks for the great post and links!
You’re welcome! Thanks for stopping by.
Hi Joe, I read this post this morning from my phone and then clicked on the link to the video. Read the summary which was very good, and then watched about 20 minutes of the video before my phone’s battery started going dead. Wanted to say thank you so much for sharing this, as it really inspired me. I am a story-writer in hibernation right now, but I’ve been following a lot more story writers on their blogs and it’s been inspiring me. So, when Ray said we should write a story every week, I thought, you know, I should give that a try. I think I’m going to start by doing that for one month and then re-evaluate at that point.
Good luck! At the very least you will practice a lot.