寫作閱讀挑戰：Ray Bradbury Challenge

最近發現一個挑戰「Ray Bradbury Challenge」，是2001年Ray Bradbury在Writer’s Symposium by the Sea的演講中提出的：

The problem with novels is that you can spend a whole year writing one and it might not turn out well because you haven’t learned to write yet. But the best hygiene for beginning writers or intermediate writers is to write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you can write one short story a week—it doesn’t matter what the quality is to start—but at least you’re practicing and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories and I defy you to write 52 bad ones. It can’t be done.（影片2分55秒左右）

“Write a new short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” – Ray Bradbury

對新手或中階作者來說「練習」是最好的方式，不管一開始的短文品質如何，寫就對了。每週寫一篇短文持續一年（52週），一年下來就有52篇，Ray Bradbury認為不可能連續寫52篇糟糕的小說。

I’ll give you a programme to follow every night. Very simple programme. For the next thousand nights, before you go to bed every night, read one short story. That will take you ten minutes, fifteen minutes. Okay? Then read one poem a night from the vast history of poetry. Stay away from most modern poems. It’s crap. It’s not poetry. Now, if you want to kid yourself and write lines that look like poems, go ahead and do it, but you’ll go nowhere. But read the great poets. Go back and read Shakespeare, read Alexander Pope, read Robert Frost. But one poem a night, one short story a night, one essay a night, for the next 1,000 nights.（影片8分30秒左右）

除了練習寫作外，還有多多閱讀以增加靈感與增廣見聞，所以Ray Bradbury建議每晚睡前花10~15分鐘閱讀一篇短文、一首詩或一篇散文。（這對我來說也太難了吧！）

挑戰分為以下兩部分：

• 每週寫一篇短文，持續一年（52週）。
• 每天看一篇短篇小說、一首詩、一篇散文／論述，持續1000天。

為了治療我的拖延症晚期，特別發這一篇出來提醒自己，這一年與未來1000天要進行這項挑戰，挑戰內容將歸類在Ray Bradbury Challenge分類裡，並用標籤「RBC 每週寫作挑戰」與「RBC 每天閱讀挑戰」細分兩項（寫作與閱讀）挑戰。

備註：上述分類與標籤適用於個人部落格，matters沒有分類，所以用Ray Bradbury Challenge標籤作為分類。

挑戰日期：

• 2020/9/28(一)~2021/9/28(二)

目標：

• 每週五發一篇短篇小說（規則、題材、字數、寫作時間皆沒有任何限制）
• 每週發3篇閱讀百字心得（短篇小說、一首詩或一篇散文／論述）

有人要一起玩玩挑戰看看嗎(*ﾟ▽ﾟ)ﾉ
另外極缺書單，歡迎留言推薦我各類書單QAQ

延 伸 閱 讀

• How to Write a Story a Week: A Day-by-Day Guide
• Ray Bradbury Writing Advice: The Bradbury Trio
• Dive Into The 30-Day Short Story Challenge: Why You Should Write Short Stories + How To Do It