![]() ![]() He must forget the money waiting for him in mass-circulation. DON’T THINK! “The writer who wants to tap the larger truth in himself must reject the temptations of Joyce or Camus or Tennessee Williams, as exhibited in the literary reviews. ![]() Suddenly, a natural rhythm is achieved. The surgeon does not tell his scalpel what to do. The type of dynamic relaxation again, as in sculpting, where the sculptor does not consciously have to tell his fingers what to do. Work, giving us experience, results in new confidence and eventually in relaxation. How can you work and relax? How can you create and not be a nervous wreck? Tenseness results from not knowing or giving up trying to know. Thus work, being important only as a means to that end, degenerates into boredom. The money becomes the object, the target, the end-all and be-all. ![]() Or worse still we conceive the idea of working for money. We often indulge in made work, in false business, to keep from being bored. Once you are really a co-sharer of existence with your work, that word will lose its repellent aspects. Beginning now you should become not its slave, which is too mean a term, but its partner. WORK. “It is, above all, the word about which your career will revolve for a lifetime.He breaks down his own idea of zen in his writing process by first asking himself, “Now while I have you here before my platform, what words shall I whip forth painted in red letters ten feet tall?” He paints the following, and after each we include selections from the essay: The old sideshow Medicine Men who traveled about our country used calliope, drum, and Blackfoot Indian, to insure open-mouthed attention. I hope I will be forgiven for using ZEN in much the same way, at least here at the start. For, in the end, you may discover I’m not joking after all.” In the 1973 title piece, Bradbury, hardly known as a Buddhist, explains his use of the term zen for its “shock value”: “The variety of reactions to it should guarantee me some sort of crowd, if only of curious onlookers, those who come to pity and stay to shout. He even wrote enough on the subject of writing to constitute an entire book, the collection Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity. Prolific in his fiction writing, he also proved generous in his encouragement of younger writers: we’ve previously featured not just his twelve essential pieces of writing advice but his secret to life and love. The prolific Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and many other works both inside and outside the realm of science fiction, apparently suffered no shortage of creativity. ![]()
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