More to Learn

I'm a writer in training really. Have been for many years.

Writing one story can make you a writer, but writing lots of stories makes you great, and that's my goal...to one day feel like a great writer.

Am I there yet?

I don't really think so.

One of my writing mentors, Ray Bradbury, said once that a writer-in-training needs to write a story every week for a year - 52 stories - in order to find something real inside of themselves.

So far, I'm up to story #16, with last week's offering.

I wasn't supposed to write a novel as well, but I did, when one of my earliest stories captured me in a big way.

So, if you consider each of those 33 chapters a short story of sorts, then I might be getting close to Bradbury's guideline.

Or not. I'm sticking to the 52 actual short stories myself. No excuses, I say.

I'm in the middle of editing #17, and coming up with a good concept for #18, so today's blog is for me, really. If you're interested, you can peek over my shoulder...

I'm a huge Pixar fan (and a medium-sized fan of TED talks), so the both of them together is convenient.