Unlock the Secret Creative Mindset That Transformed Ray Bradbury’s Writing Forever

Unlock the Secret Creative Mindset That Transformed Ray Bradbury’s Writing Forever

These lists eventually became a warehouse of story ideas for Bradbury. He’d pluck words from the lists and write long prose-poem essays about them. In doing so, he’d create a character who would turn the whole thing into a story. When he rode a carousel as a child, it terrified him, and he avoided it thereafter, until it re-emerged years later when he was writing Something Wicked This Way Comes

One of my favorite parts of the book was when Bradbury declared that every person is a poet when lit up by their passions. He spoke of people who weren’t creative types, definitely not writers or poets or masters of language, but he observed that when a person talked about something they cared about, their words flowed smoothly and naturally, and they become a poet for the duration of that conversation. I too have witnessed that phenomenon, and I thought it was an astute observation. As writers, we can conclude that our best work might emerge when we write from our hearts.

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