Zen in the Art of Writing
by Ray Bradbury
Bradbury's essays on writing with joy: word association lists, writing a story a week, feeding the muse, and the zest that kept him producing for sixty years. Exuberant and encouraging.
Read it if…
you have lost joy in writing and want it back.
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Skip it if…
you want structural craft.
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Three things you will actually use
- Write with zest.
- A story a week; you cannot write 52 bad ones.
- Feed the muse with reading and living.
Do this first
Write a list of nouns from your past and pick one to write about today.
Our verdict
Exuberant encouragement.
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