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Legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury has been cranking out short stories for years, has won all kinds of literary awards, and is world famous.  But it didn’t start out that way for this prolific story writer who started his career in high school, writing short stories that earned him files filled with rejection slips.  Many writers, when faced with rejection slips, simply put their rejected stories away and never look at them again, but not Bradbury.  He kept working on his stories even after receiving several rejections, polishing them and rewriting them until, years later, he began to sell a few here and there.  What does he credit with his success?

For Bradbury, success meant writing persistently, always seeking to improve on what he’d done before.  Soon, he was selling a story a month, then two, then three or four.  He had mastered his art and found a way of writing that resulted in positive outcomes, and he stuck with it.  Check out the video below to hear Bradbury discuss his persistence in writing, in his own words: