{"id":2371579,"date":"2016-03-10T13:44:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/?p=2371579"},"modified":"2023-01-06T21:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T03:35:20","slug":"identity-playing-writing-strengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/blog\/identity-playing-writing-strengths\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity: Playing to Your Writing Strengths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/oyan-blog-identity-pinterest.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2371582\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2371582 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/oyan-blog-identity-pinterest-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"oyan-blog-identity-pinterest\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/oyan-blog-identity-pinterest-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/oyan-blog-identity-pinterest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/oyan-blog-identity-pinterest-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/oyan-blog-identity-pinterest.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Daniel Schwabauer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I spent my teens and early twenties in a place that smelled like an old shoe. I quit practicing martial arts a long time ago, but for twelve years my overriding passion was an eclectic blend of <strong>karate, judo and jujitsu<\/strong> that emphasized street techniques and self-defense. I also did a lot of sparring, and I traveled to different dojos in order to compete against talented people who would push me in unfamiliar ways.<\/p>\n<p>One of these outside instructors approached me after after a lengthy practice session. \u201cYou\u2019re a defensive fighter,\u201d he said. \u201cYou wait and react to what your opponent does instead of attacking. I know because I fight that way too. <strong>It\u2019s really hard to win as a defensive fighter. But it\u2019s impossible if you don&#8217;t train accordingly.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This instructor recognized that I was trying too hard to push myself in ways that were <strong>contrary to my own instincts and personality<\/strong>. I was desperately trying to improve my areas of weakness and completely ignoring my areas of strength. In fact, I was emulating my own sensei, a fabulous martial artist and teacher whose aggressive techniques had won him a national championship. But imitating his style only made me a second-rate competitor. <strong>Instead of learning to fight like him, I needed to learn to fight like me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This same thing happens with writers. We are drawn to the works of authors whose words and stories seem effortless, who pull us in so thoroughly that we lose sight of how they are doing it. In this sense, ironically, <strong>we are drawn to the writers we understand least<\/strong>. We admire the skills we find difficult, and we disregard those that come naturally. We try hardest to master those skills we are least capable of.<\/p>\n<p>I want to write like my favorite authors\u2014Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein and C.S. Lewis\u2014all rolled into one. But no matter how much I practice and polish and imitate, I will never be able to. The reason I am so drawn to them is that <strong>they are capable of things I can\u2019t do<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Not that practice and revision and imitation are useless. But for me to spend years trying to capture the magic of Ray Bradbury\u2019s voice would be foolish. I will never have quite the same mixture of mystery and awe and human nature and wordsmithiness one finds in <em>The Martian Chronicles<\/em>. I will never capture the precise blend of wonder and logic and theology and innocence one finds in Lewis\u2019s The Chronicles of Narnia.<\/p>\n<p>At some point we all reach the upper limits of our mediocrity. <strong>Wood can be sharpened, but not tempered.<\/strong> To make a knife, you need steel.<\/p>\n<p>Learning to write well means, in part, discovering where your talents really lie. It means uncovering your writing identity. <strong>What forgeable skills do you possess?<\/strong> Can you tell the difference between hardwood and iron ore?<\/p>\n<p>There is no easy path to finding your voice, your style, your message, your identity. Self-discovery takes time, especially as a writer. It\u2019s a process. It takes practice and imitation and outside input. It takes <strong>beta readers with insight<\/strong>, people who can say, \u201cHere, yes <em>here<\/em>, is where you moved me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You may be surprised when this happens. The sections in your early prose that readers admire may be <strong>those that came easily<\/strong>. The parts you labored over\u2014that lengthy description of a beautiful mountain, for instance\u2014may induce a yawn.<\/p>\n<p>Readers, then, are a good place to begin. How they respond emotionally to your words can provide clues about what sort of writer you are.<\/p>\n<p>But there are other indicators too. For instance, which authors and stories do you enjoy the most? <strong>Chances are, your favorites resonate because you share a similar vision for storytelling.<\/strong> Your appreciation of certain genres and emotions and themes might point to a level of passion that can drive your own work. My favorite authors all write speculative fiction.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it\u2019s also likely that you don\u2019t share your favorite authors\u2019 technical strengths. Why? <strong>For the same reason their stories work so well on you.<\/strong> Andy Author\u2019s themes and character arcs and story resolutions stir you deeply because you can&#8217;t see the techniques he\u2019s using to create them. They\u2019re invisible to you. And why are they invisible? Because they aren\u2019t your strengths.<\/p>\n<p>The techniques you do notice are the ones you do well and easily. When you notice them, they lose their effectiveness. Thus, they seem to appear in the works of \u201clesser\u201d authors whose craft seems brutish and transparent. You wonder why Henry Hack has a following. After all, you can always predict where his stories are going. Why can\u2019t everyone else? Answer: <strong>your talents are built on a similar foundation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these are generalizations. Discovering your writing identity is not as simple as sharpening one&#8217;s natural abilities. It is not merely a matter of asking people to tell you what they like and dislike about your work. But these are good places to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the simplest clues can have the most profound impact.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing that I was a defensive fighter and needed to train like one came as a relief. Lots of things fell into place that day, and <strong>I changed the way I practiced<\/strong>. That revelation of who I really was took me all the way to the national championship.*<\/p>\n<p>*For those who want to know: I lost the championship match in overtime. By split decision. To my sparring partner. Who was also a defensive fighter. Apparently, he\u2019d gotten the same advice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>What natural strengths have you noticed in your own writing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Daniel_Schwabauer_500w.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1602\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1602\" src=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Daniel_Schwabauer_500w.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel_Schwabauer_500w\" width=\"146\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Daniel_Schwabauer_500w.jpg 500w, https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Daniel_Schwabauer_500w-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Schwabauer,<\/strong> MA, is the creator of <a title=\"The One Year Adventure Novel creative writing program for high school students\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oneyearnovel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The One Year Adventure Novel<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>and<a title=\"Cover Story Writing middle school creative writing and language arts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coverstorywriting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> Cover Story Writing<\/em><\/a>\u00a0creative writing courses. His professional work includes stage plays, radio scripts, short stories, newspaper columns,\u00a0comic books and scripting for the PBS animated series\u00a0<i>Auto-B-Good<\/i>. His young adult novels,\u00a0<a title=\"Runt the Brave by Daniel Schwabauer AMG Publishers\" href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/shop\/runt-the-brave-daniel-schwabauer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Runt the Brave<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Runt the Hunted by Daniel Schwabauer AMG Publishers\" href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/shop\/runt-the-hunted-daniel-schwabauer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Runt the Hunted<\/em><\/a>, have received numerous awards, including the 2005 Ben Franklin Award for Best New\u00a0Voice in Children\u2019s Literature and the 2008 Eric Hoffer Award. His\u00a0third book,\u00a0<em><a title=\"The Curse of the Seer by Daniel Schwabauer book 3 AMG Publishers\" href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/shop\/the-curse-of-the-seer-daniel-schwabauer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Curse of the Seer<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0was released in the summer of 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Daniel Schwabauer<\/strong><br \/>\nLearning to write well means, in part, discovering where your talents really lie. It means uncovering your writing identity. What forgeable skills do you possess? 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