The Invisible College Lesson Two: Sell your Heart
May 21, 2017
Ray Bradbury, ebullient American sci-fi and fantasy writer, reflects on writing from childhood memory and the subconscious. Short, vivid stories and the fear and courage of exposing your inner self come up. Conversations touch on noticing what hooks your soul, taking emotional risks, and the power of an authentic voice.
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Voice Is A Continuous Tuning
- Finding your voice is an ongoing process of tuning into how you uniquely see the world.
- Work that fully possesses its creator feels alive and singularly theirs.
Notice And Own What Hooks You
- Notice what sticks in your subconscious like a teasel on a cardigan and investigate why it matters.
- Keep struggling with a subject until you genuinely possess it before deciding "that'll do."
Bradbury's Sandcastle Memory
- Ray Bradbury recalled a childhood memory of a girl who never returned from the water and later wrote a story to bring her back.
- Writing that true memory made him cry and marked when he began mining his subconscious for honest material.