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Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780553296341
ISBN: 0553296345
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 158
Publication Date: April 01, 1992
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: March 01, 1992
Studio: Bantam
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Editorial Review:
"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a land mine. The land mine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces back together. Now, it's your turn. Jump!" Zest. Gusto. Curiosity. These are the qualities every writer must have, as well as a spirit of adventure. In this exuberant book, the incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing. Here are practical tips on the art of writing from a master of the craft-everything from finding original ideas to developing your own voice and style-as well as the inside story of Bradbury's own remarkable career as a prolific author of novels, stories, poems, films, and plays. Zen In The Art Of Writing is more than just a how-to manual for the would-be writer: it is a celebration of the act of writing itself that will delight, impassion, and inspire the writer in you. In it, Bradbury encourages us to follow the unique path of our instincts and enthusiasms to the place where our inner genius dwells, and he shows that success as a writer depends on how well you know one subject: your own life.
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Rating: - Forget Writing Seminars and Read This Book
Having taught writing for twenty years, publishing four novels along the way, I regard this as the bible on the craft of writing. Bradbury's advice to have fun and let one's fingers play across the keyboard, letting enthusiasm and a love of words govern the composing process, cuts through the the tedious, mind-numbing literary algorithms of writing seminars and classes.
I suppose it's legitimate to discuss aspects of writing such as characterization, pacing, plot arc, and backstory ... Read More
Rating: - Love what you do - - - the words will come naturally
Writing about writing is wrought with woe, because a clever few words gathered by one writer may become muck in the minds of some readers.
However, here goes. Good conversation is based on a genuine interest in others. But, the key to good writing is a genuine interest in good ideas. Bradbury loves ideas, he is a master of wonderful "what if?" flights of fancy. For example, who else could see a fallen harbour pier and imagine it into a lovelorn dinosaur? ... Read More
Rating: - excellent
This is a keeper. Sometimes as authors we second guess ourselves and this really helps put writing into perspective.
Rating:  - Etiology of a fictionist
It was fascinating to read here the writing autobiography of one of the favorite authors of my youthful self. Bradbury's reflection on his boyhood literary influences easily triggered my own look back to the time when he was mine. Zen, by the author's admission, was a very new concept for him (just a few weeks old) when he wrote the title essay in this collection. And also, he confesses, used as his title the way a medicine show barker would use "calliope, drum and Blackfoot Indian," to get the audience's ... Read More
Rating: - Write Here, Write Now.
Zen. The practice of living fully in the now, paying full attention to being, and to doing.
Is this possible with writing? It is if you follow Bradbury's lead, and immerse yourself first in what he tells you about how HE writes, and then, put the book aside, and immerse yourself in your own daily writing practice.
Do it fearlessly, consistently, and mindfully, and allow your best to surface. You'll stop being so quick to judge what you write, and just let the writing flow (editing ... Read More
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