If you aspire to greatness in the field of writing books, comics, etc, etc 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. 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. Check out my book page at Amazon and my youtube channel . I actually came across this story a few years ago in DC Comics Tarzan #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 th...