Words to Write by

Five People a Writer Needs in their Career


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No one succeeds all by themselves, and that includes Ray Bradbury.  In his book Zen in the Art of Writing, he credits several individual who were critical to his literary success. In this episode we examine the roles these people took on and speculate how they might fit into our modern social-media driven world.

Then we have some fun with the chapter where Bradbury marvels that science fiction is now being taught in the classroom - Would you have ever imagined?? As people who read Fahrenheit 451 in high school English, why yes, yes we can. We transition Bradbury's observations into the present with a discussion of the use of comic books and video games in modern education before speculating what next  Entertainment  will rise up to the status of an Artform.

Want to learn more - check out our show notes.

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