Via Open Culture, some Friday afternoon inspirational viewing for you: A master class from the late Ray Bradbury.
I'd never seen Bradbury speak before, and I was struck by what an educator he was. He really wanted young people to benefit from what he had learned. Also he swore a lot. I have a new hero.
It turns out, too, that I've been unwittingly following his advice with this blog:
"The best hygiene for a beginning writer or an intermediate writer is to write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you can write one short story a week, doesn't matter what the quality is to start, but at least you're practicing; and at the end of a year you have 52 short stories, and I defy to you write 52 bad ones. It can't be done."
Lots of great stuff in here—check it out!