Ray Bradbury Lecture Summary

Another phenomenal and heartening lecture by Ray Bradbury. His words of wisdom transcended people’s mind; making them want to dream again. The lectures and readings itself didn’t only inspire me, as a student to be more engaged and exhilarated by their work, but it also changed their perspective and endowed them with ideas on what it truly means to live.
The lecture/reading provoked and motivated a vast variety of passionate writers; as they seek guidance from Bradbury’s words. In the opening introduction of his speech, he mentioned to the audience that before you embarked on your novel, you must have excellent hygiene of writing. He touched this topic, the hygiene of writing, to let the writers know the implications of writing a novel and
The final result of that outcome, is what the author dreaded the most; having their book not turning out as they imagined. Bradbury addressed this situation in the beginning of his lecture and explained that it’s because “they haven't learned how to write yet.” This experience can lead author's thinking that they have bad hygiene of writing. What it means to have good hygiene, is that writers has to have several experience exploring and writing different topics, until you find that one genre suits them. They also must be able to compact things and learn to look for ideas; being able to engulf themselves with creativity. Being courageous enough to express their true selves on a piece of paper. Bradbury’s suggested “that the best hygiene for budding authors is to do a hell of alot of stories. It doesn’t matter about the quality that you are producing but at least it gives you practice. Write a short story every week.” The more writing the author practices, the better they’ll be
Countless of times, Bradbury constantly emphasizes that a writer's incentive for writing a novel shouldn’t be about the money and that traditional writing doesn't always makes the best stories. During his speech, he claims that “ the problem with writers is that they think commercially on how much they make, but rather than who they are. Their true self has to come hasn’t had the chance to come out. Traditional writing doesn’t always make up a good story.” This structed people thinking about “how could they lose sight of themselves and their self-morals?” A job shouldn’t be determine on it’s annual salary, but rather in seeking pleasure in doing it and being able to get up in the morning to do it. Being a writer should be something about passion, finding joy and success on your accomplishments. The writer should already know a great deal about himself and courageous enough to express that in his writing for his viewers. From a student’s perspective, this can be referred to as grades. Often it seems that students often stress out about the grades they’ll receive in their writing, thus limiting their creativity; always thinking what is best way to impress the teacher. They often tend to write a traditional paper, knowing what grade it will get them but rather in taking risks and taking the opposite route. The students are frightened and