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Welcome to the 1,000 Nights Challenge!

To help, please check out our pages and pick a section you'd like to help contribute to:

• Short stories
• Poems
• Essays

About

In 2001, Ray Bradbury gave a speech at (video starts around 11:00) the University of California where he encouraged young writers to read three things every night:

1. One short story (Dahl, Hemingway, Matheson, Cheever, Kneale, Collier, Warton, Irving)
2. One poem (Shakespeare, Frost, Pope)
3. One essay (Huxley, Eiseley)

His goal is to make you into a collector of the metaphor -- filling your head with thoughts, theories, and ideas before bed, rather than completing another level in Angry Birds.

This repository is to help me 1.) follow Bradbury's advice and 2.) create a list of reading material to fill 1,000 nights.

Hat tip to Rands in Repose for originally alerting me to the video.