Rest in Peace, Mr. Bradbury

"In 2009, at a lecture celebrating the first anniversary of a small library in Southern California's San Gabriel Valley, Bradbury exhorted his listeners to live their lives as he said he had lived his: "Do what you love and love what you do."

"If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell," he shouted to raucous applause."

Amen, sir. Amen.

For more information about the life and death of Ray Bradbury, here are the links for a USA Today article (from where the above excerpt is taken) and Mr. Bradbury's website.

Write 1 Sub 1: Come for the Challenge . . . Stay for the Community

In January of this year, I started doing the Write 1 Sub 1 Challenge and I quickly became an advocate. Maybe too much so, because I was recently invited to join the administrative team! As you can imagine, I was thrilled - first, because it's a huge honor to be part of something I believe in and second, because, as the girl who was picked last for a lot of things, it's nice to be chosen for something.

In keeping with the Motivational Monday theme of this blog, the W1S1 blog will host Bradbury Bytes where quotes about writing from Ray Bradbury will continue to inspire and motivate us all.

Go on over and check it all out. And if the weekly or monthly challenge sounds good to you, you don't have to wait until January to start. Start now! Look at it this way - if you decide to do the monthly version in September, you'd have four new stories written and subbed by the end of the year - four stories that you might not have had otherwise.

So, what are you waiting for?

Motivational Monday Quote

YOU MUST STAY DRUNK ON WRITING

SO REALITY CANNOT DESTROY YOU.

(Ray Bradbury)

I thought this quote was particularly appropriate since a) I'd rather be drunk on books and stories and words than on alcohol and b) the Write 1 Sub 1 - A Year-Long Writing Experiment in Ray Bradbury's Shadow started this past Saturday.  (Click on the web badge over on the sidebar for more information about this writing challenge.)

 

We deal with reality every day - from small things, like cleaning the house and doing laundry to larger things, like coping with a loved one's sickness or struggling with financial problems.  We live it, we live in it.  But that doesn't mean reality gets to win.  It doesn't get to take our creativity or our dreams or our imagination.  It doesn't get to...unless we let it.