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Ray Bradbury’s ’1,000 nights’ reading list for writers

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My last post has three videos of Ray Bradbury with advice for writers. I’ve taken some of his guidance to heart and ordered a number of books from his suggested reading list. All week they’ve been coming in the mail. “The Man Who Saw Through Time” by Loren Eiseley, “The Necklace & other Short Stories” by Guy de Maupassant, “The Best of Roald Dahl” and “The Road Not Taken & other poems” by Robert Frost. It’s a rich collection of short stories, essays and poems which… Continue reading →

The best of Ray Bradbury’s advice for writers

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This is my writer’s discovery of the day! A lecture by Ray Bradbury at the Sixth Annual Writer’s Symposium. No matter that it was 10 years ago. His wit shines and his advice holds true in a timeless way. Besides The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes, Mr. Bradbury wrote over 30 novels, as well as 600 short stories and essays in every genre. In fact, he spent years writing short stories before he even tackled his first novel, which was, by the… Continue reading →

Four great books on ‘How to write a book’

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There’s no shortage of people who want to help writers. Googling ‘how to write a book’ produces over 46 million results. Change the term search to the slightly more cynical ‘so you want to write a book?’ gets you close to 3 million results. Try searching Amazon with ‘how to write a book’ and you have almost 10,000 book covers shouting (you can almost hear some of them) written by people who promise you’ll learn everything you need to know in 30 days. And it’ll… Continue reading →

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