How Edgar Rice Burroughs Creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars became a successful writer

If you aspire to greatness in the field of writing books, comics, or other medium, then you’ll probably find the story of how Edgar Rice Burroughs got into writing both interesting and motivational. Burroughs created Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. Tarzan the King of the Jungle has been made into a multitude of movies and tv series over the years and John Carter of Mars has been said to have been the precursor to modern sci-fi entertainment without which we may not have had such things as Star Wars today.

I actually came across this story a few years ago in DC Comics Tarzan number 230 published in 1975. Within was a reprinted article from the Washington Post from 1929. It was an interview with Edgar Ric Burroughs where he describes his journey into writing.

His motivation for writing was not really for a love of creating grand adventure stories and science fiction, but for more down to earth reasons. He simply needed the money to support his family.

Like a lot of great men who found success throughout the ages, he didn’t start out greatly successful. In fact he said in the interview he wasn’t really successful at anything until he began writing. In his own words, “I was 35 and had failed in every enterprise I had ever attempted.”

Failure often leads to success. I believe future writes will find that Burroughs' story very motivational and inspiring. If he can do it so can you and I.

Video Content

0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Famous characters that Edgar Rice Burroughs created
1:02 - Edgar Rice Burroughs interview where he talks about what made him a successful writer
1:30 - Failure leads to Edgar Rice Burroughs success
2:53 - How Edgar Rice Burroughs first began his writing career
4:07 - How Edgar Rice Burroughs work influenced future science fiction characters and stories

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