Howard said that he enjoyed the freedom that writing offered and sometimes labored at his stories for up to 18 hours per day. He enjoyed a warm correspondence with such famed writers of the times as horror novelist H. Over time, many of his short stories were published in Weird Tales, which included short stories and novellas from the most popular science fiction and horror writers of the day. In 1924, he sold his first story, the tale of a caveman called “Spear and Fang” for $16 in a magazine called Weird Tales. He briefly attended Howard Payne College in Brownwood. After graduation in spring 1923, he returned home and worked a series of odd jobs while trying to start his writing career.
He began writing for the school newspaper where his first stories were published. He moved to nearby Brownwood in 1922 to complete high school. He pushed forward nevertheless, propelled by his own faith in his writing and his love of storytelling. Like many young writers, he faced rejection after rejection for his stories.
By the age of 15, he was quickly writing stories and sending them off to various magazines in hopes of being published. He decided at an early age to be a writer.
By all accounts, he had an excellent memory and noticed details very easily, but he disliked authority and often had problems with his teachers. In particular, he enjoyed reading tales of ancient cultures and civilizations. As a youngster, he absorbed the tales told to him, from ghost stories to folk tales to war stories from surviving Civil War veterans, and developed a great love of reading.
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