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\"\"Tineke Bryson, Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you\u2019re a kid, the \u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d question is fun.\u00a0\u201cA doctor!\u201d or \u201cA dinosaur!\u201d are equally serious answers. It seems just as possible to\u00a0become a princess as it does to become a teacher or an archaeologist. The really\u00a0hard thing to believe is that you\u2019ll grow up<\/strong>. That\u2019s the fairytale.<\/p>\n

The evidence is all around you. Photographs of your parents and grandparents as\u00a0children deal perhaps the most solid blow to disbelief. But who seriously believes\u00a0they will think like a grown-up one day? Act like a grown-up? Look like a grown-up?\u00a0If the legends are true, then anything is possible<\/strong>. Including becoming a famous\u00a0novelist.<\/p>\n

As a kid, I thought I was just as likely to become a writer as I was to become\u00a0anything else. But as I grew older, I stopped thinking this way.<\/p>\n

The way kid\/pre-teen writers think about their future changes completely<\/strong> with the\u00a0transition to teen, and later, adult writer.<\/p>\n

At One Year Adventure Novel<\/em>, we get lots of emails and calls from parents of pre-teen\u00a0writers. \u201cMy son has already written a book and started another, and I think he\u2019s\u00a0really good!\u201d they might say. Or \u201cI know you say the curriculum is for 8th grade and\u00a0higher, but my 11-year-old is already a strong writer. This would be perfect for her!\u201d\u00a0These conversations sometimes make me sad. I can\u2019t recommend OYAN for an 11-\u00a0year-old, but I also know that by the time a student is 13 or 14, she may have lost\u00a0some of the creative confidence she has right now as a pre-teen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before I turned 13, I wrote feverishly, transfixed by the glory of each new story idea.\u00a0I did not think I was quite<\/em> as good as an adult playwright or poet, but I thought I was\u00a0good, for a kid! As I grew older, I did continue to write, but I became much less\u00a0certain of the kind of future that awaited me. The projects I took on were less\u00a0ambitious and I often abandoned them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If (like me) you are shaken by the loss of your earlier confidence and joy in writing<\/strong>,\u00a0please don\u2019t make the mistake of concluding you just don\u2019t have it in you after all.\u00a0You\u2019re in the fairytale now, and it\u2019s even more perilous<\/strong> than you imagined it might\u00a0be, as a kid, looking in from outside.<\/p>\n

To make an analogy: you\u2019ve left the kiddie climbing wall and entered the vaulted\u00a0expanse of the adult climbing area. Suddenly the voices in your life switch from \u201cYou\u00a0can be anything you want to be!\u201d to \u201cDo you really think you can get published?\u00a0What will you do if you can\u2019t?<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

As adults, we err on the side of over-affirming kids. We transfer on to them our own\u00a0hopes and dreams. If not me, then maybe them<\/em>. But as kids reach their teens, it\u2019s easy\u00a0for us to transfer our fears and disappointments instead. We start sowing caution,\u00a0trying, in a misguided way, to save you from disillusionment and letdown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave you seen the adult climbing wall space?\u201d we say. \u201cI just want to make sure you\u00a0know how hard<\/em> it\u2019s going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course you\u2019re daunted. There are no longer fifty\u00a0climbing grips; there are what\u00a0appear to be thousands. And this isn\u2019t even the mountain.<\/strong> It\u2019s just the training\u00a0ground for the mountain.<\/p>\n

Where do you even start?<\/p>\n

I am an adult. And I have this to say: The face of a mountain, no matter how\u00a0daunting, is just made of rock<\/strong>\u2014stretches of rock not unlike a climbing wall. And\u00a0every climbing wall just comes down to a grip. Here\u2019s how you climb the face of your future:<\/p>\n

Start Where You Are<\/h3>\n

No need to figure out the ideal spot to start climbing. In high school?\u00a0Homeschooling? In college? Working? It doesn\u2019t matter. Quite honestly, almost any\u00a0\u201cspot\u201d will do. Because it\u2019s about starting.<\/strong> It\u2019s about putting your fingers to a grip\u00a0just within stretching reach, testing your weight on a foot grip, and moving.<\/p>\n

Just look at the grips within reach<\/strong>. Don\u2019t waste emotional energy bemoaning how\u00a0far you are from the best-case scenario. When it comes to writing, there is no best-case scenario.<\/strong> Mark Twain did not finish high school. Ray Bradbury did not go to\u00a0college, Harper Lee studied law, Rowling studied French and Classics. There is no\u00a0one best path. Just people who started where they were and stretched.<\/p>\n

A Little Recon Is Half the Battle<\/h3>\n

Calmly taking a look at the grip options around you will do more for you than hours\u00a0of soul-searching and courage-summoning. Don\u2019t brood over your fears. Just do a\u00a0little research with no obligation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Look at writing degrees, but pretend it is for somebody else.<\/p>\n

Find writing workshops that sound fun and pretend you have a rich benefactress\u00a0who is looking for ways to spoil you.<\/p>\n

Stalk the blogs of fiction editors and agents and pretend you have no reason in the\u00a0world to contact them.<\/p>\n

Who knows? You might need to dress up and do this recon incognito. It\u2019s for the war\u00a0effort. Nothing\u2019s too silly for the war effort.<\/p>\n

The thing about recon is that once you\u2019ve done it, it becomes far easier to take\u00a0action.<\/strong> The terrain itself is no longer one vast, dark question mark. It\u2019s somewhat\u00a0familiar. Your brain gets the chance to move on from \u201cWhat if?\u201d to \u201cHow?\u201d At a\u00a0certain point, the wig and glasses slide off and you startle yourself by saying, \u201cI think\u00a0I\u2019ll try this.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Invest in Accountability<\/h3>\n

There is no cost-free way to succeed as a writer.<\/strong> If you find a \u201cfree\u201d way to publish\u00a0yourself, or get a full ride to study at a great school, or write your best-selling books\u00a0early in the morning before your job, your costs may not have been in dollars, but\u00a0they were<\/em> costs. Costs in credibility, or sleep, or energy, or other opportunities\u00a0sacrificed for the sake of writing.<\/p>\n

Every way up the mountain will cost you, but some investments are more\u00a0worthwhile<\/strong>. \u201cSpend\u201d on accountability. Whether you forgo college to pursue writing\u00a0through self-discipline and training seminars, or apply to a four-year university, you should think of it as money\/time\/energy invested into\u00a0accountability.<\/p>\n

The writer who is so self-disciplined that he doesn\u2019t need a prod to keep going is\u00a0extremely-rare-to-mythical.<\/p>\n

You need people in your life to push you<\/strong>. To set deadlines for you. To hold the rope\u00a0when you\u2019re in danger. You need mentors who\u2019ve climbed the mountain before. The\u00a0\u201ccheap\u201d way is not without a price. The \u201cexpensive\u201d way may cost less in non-financial currency. For example, my four years studying writing at a private college\u00a0cost a lot of money, but I wrote more during that period than I have written in the\u00a0seven tuition-free years since. Why? Because my writing professors made me write<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0You may not need other people to impose deadlines on you to make you write; I do.<\/p>\n

Your safety gear as a writer is in the form of investments in accountability. Make\u00a0good investments.<\/p>\n

Hard to believe, but if you get started, feel out the options, and have the support of\u00a0accountability, the adult climbing area will one day feel too small. You\u2019ll hanker after\u00a0the mountain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

What is one writing-related grip you could reach toward in the near future?<\/em><\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\"\"About Tineke\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tineke Bryson (Honors in Writing, Houghton College) lives in the very center of a pretty complicated Venn diagram, right where fiction and nonfiction, creating and editing, and North American, European, and West African culture meet. Tineke grew up abroad, and before joining The One Year Adventure Novel<\/em>, she worked as an editor.<\/p>\n

She and her husband, Matthias, live in Lawrence, Kansas. She loves British history, reading YA fantasy, and collecting moths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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