![]() ![]() This book has been with me for a long time. It motivated me to write, so there's that to go in the plus column, if nothing else. ![]() Boy, he really wanted to get his poetry published somewhere! I didn't read much of it - I'm a poor judge of anything more free-form than a sonnet - but how this ended up here is a mystery.So should you read this book? I picked it up for a few dollars, and it was probably worth the read. Bradbury lived in a time that has vanished - writers don't get the opportunities he had, and while he certainly worked to achieve his success, the path was not strewn with the obstacles that the writer of today must somehow get past.5. While it's true that the more you write, the better you will get at writing more, I think without feedback you might find that the writing is simply never improving. The central point is this: write more and you will get better. ![]() There's not a lot of highly usable info here. He talks about his own novels a lot - where the inspiration came from, what it was like to write the story - but he does so with the right modest:humblebrag ratio. I guess he settled on his voice early on and it just stuck.2. The essays here span several decades, and yet Bradbury's writing style and tone of voice don't tend to change much. I'm not saying this book is bad, but rather it turned out to be a lot less useful than I was hoping. ![]()
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