Before graduating, Fox took a job with a sports radio station with dreams of making that a career. It was here that he learned an important writing skill that would help with children’s books: brevity. Sports stories had to be short, because several of them needed to fit in a two minute sports report. Learning to say fewer words when more are available is a hard skill, but it suited Fox because his sloth tendencies led to thinking of higher quality words in a short span, instead of a higher quantity in the same amount of time.