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Some inspiration from author of award-winning Fahrenheit 451

11 Years Ago


Ray Bradbury Gives Twelve Pieces of Writing Advice:
Remember Don’t start out writing novels. They take too long. Begin your writing life instead by cranking out “a hell of a lot of short stories,” as many as one per week. Take a year to do it; he claims that it simply isn’t possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. He waited until the age of 30 to write his first novel, Fahrenheit 451. “Worth waiting for, huh?”