![]() ![]() ![]() We promise, no frogs were harmed in the making of this episode. Needless to say, this episode has been brought to you by the Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. And maybe Kurt Vonnegut (and that’s a big maybe). Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity is a collection of essays written by Ray Bradbury on the topic of writing. In other words: bla, bla, bla, Mark Twain. Gardner also makes a point about experimental fiction, but he covers that in his next chapter (and we cover it in our next episode). The celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles offers. tells outrageous lies and simultaneously emphasizes both the brilliance and the falsehood of the lie that is, he tells the lie as convincingly as he can but also raises objections to the lie, either those objections the reader might raise or, for comic effect, literal-minded country-bumpkin objections that, though bumpkinish, call attention to the yarn’s improbabilities.” The silliness of this style led to a form of pun called the Tom Swiftie, where the adverb conveys the punch line: Im an artist, he said easily. Read Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury available from Rakuten Kobo. The Tale requires not convincing of how real it is but how sincere/world building through language. ![]() Realistic Writing requires the writer to simulate real life, make the events as realistic as possible. ![]()
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