The following short film is the most inspiring thing I have seen in a long time. In it, Ray Bradbury speaks about his life and most of all about how and why he became a writer.
"The things that you do, should be things that you love.
And the things that you love should be things that you do." (Ray Bradbury)
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Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Monday, 11 June 2012
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Why write? Why not write?
For a couple of months or so, I've been writing a short story. (I almost wrote 'trying to write' but then I just stayed with what I actually wrote, for this good reason here.)
I keep starting it over and over again only to get stuck with the wretched thing after a couple of paragraphs. Then I give up and relieve myself from the burden of having to write anything once and for all. But it ain't as easy as it seems. A few days later I am back to it, chewing the pencil like mad, staring into space.
So far, I have always sat down to the task as a future crime story writer, but what with all this struggling and not really coming up with anything that even slightly resembles a plot, I might as well decide to write a science fiction next.
The best by-product of this sweaty writing project has been finding this video, in which Kurt Vonnegut gives advice on writing short stories:
I keep starting it over and over again only to get stuck with the wretched thing after a couple of paragraphs. Then I give up and relieve myself from the burden of having to write anything once and for all. But it ain't as easy as it seems. A few days later I am back to it, chewing the pencil like mad, staring into space.
So far, I have always sat down to the task as a future crime story writer, but what with all this struggling and not really coming up with anything that even slightly resembles a plot, I might as well decide to write a science fiction next.
The best by-product of this sweaty writing project has been finding this video, in which Kurt Vonnegut gives advice on writing short stories:
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