{"id":2371788,"date":"2016-09-15T12:56:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/?p=2371788"},"modified":"2022-11-16T17:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T23:09:32","slug":"creative-writing-waste-time-non-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/blog\/creative-writing-waste-time-non-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Writing \u2013 A Waste of Time for a Non-Writer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/oyan-blog-waste-time-pinterest.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2371790\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2371790 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/oyan-blog-waste-time-pinterest-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"oyan-blog-waste-time-pinterest\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/oyan-blog-waste-time-pinterest-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/oyan-blog-waste-time-pinterest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/oyan-blog-waste-time-pinterest-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/oyan-blog-waste-time-pinterest.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Blaine Russell, Guest Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We often get emails and calls from families who wonder whether <\/em>The One Year Adventure Novel<em> curriculum would be a good fit\u00a0for a student who doesn&#8217;t aspire to be an author. We thought it would be fun to hear directly from a non-writer!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that I&#8217;m writing a post for the <em>One Year Adventure Novel<\/em> blog might give you certain\u00a0expectations as to the type of person I am. So&#8230; here are a couple of facts that might surprise\u00a0you.<\/p>\n<p>One: I&#8217;m left-brained. Not extremely, but enough that <strong>I swing more to the mathematical and\u00a0logical than the creative<\/strong>. At least, creative in the way required for imagining worlds and\u00a0characters and stories to put them in.<\/p>\n<p>Two: I&#8217;m not planning on ever writing for a career. Not even close to it. <strong>My passion is not\u00a0creative writing.<\/strong> Instead, writing is just a hobby.<\/p>\n<p>So, that being said, why have I wasted time and money on the <em>One Year Adventure\u00a0Novel<\/em>\u2014OYAN\u2014curriculum and four years of <a href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/events\/summer-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summer Workshops<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, <strong>I don&#8217;t think I wasted anything<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I started OYAN back in 2010, and attended the workshops from 2012 through 2015. My\u00a0first\u201cnovel\u201d was not much more than a short story, no longer than a Boxcar Children chapter\u00a0book. It was terribly lacking in&#8230; well, just about everything needed to make it remotely\u00a0interesting.<\/p>\n<p>My second novel, which turned out as more of a novella, might be remembered with pain by\u00a0my Summer Workshop critique group back in 2012. It was a pirate story, and I think the main\u00a0character jumped or was pushed off the side of a boat at least five times. It was a convenient\u00a0way to get him around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since then, I have not finished a novel.<\/strong> My life has become more centered around my studies,\u00a0working on the family farm, playing music with my family band, digging my hands into clean,dark, garden soil, and taking as many pictures as I can in between. Writing happens rarely,\u00a0and it&#8217;s hard to write a novel with only a few thousand words a month. But I would like to think\u00a0that if I did, <strong>it would be much improved<\/strong> from those first two stories.<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t see myself making a living off of my writing (though it&#8217;s possible I might write\u00a0some nonfiction someday), I do plan on having my own business. <strong>Being able to express ideas\u00a0through ink and paper, or, in our day and age, digital, black-and- white pixels, is extremely\u00a0important for my goals.<\/strong> Writing is an essential tool for anyone, I believe, and OYAN has been\u00a0the grindstone on which I sharpened my blade. I am very thankful to OYAN\u2014and more\u00a0importantly, to its creator, Mr. Schwabauer\u2014for the training I received; for, without it, I would\u00a0be much less capable of expressing these ideas.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe some credit goes to my mom and dad for buying the curriculum and driving me to\u00a0so many workshops!<\/p>\n<p>I know some people who would disagree with me about the value of learning a breadth of\u00a0skills. If you don&#8217;t focus on one skill set, how are you ever going to reach excellence, they\u00a0might ask.<\/p>\n<p>They have a point, to an extent. Too much diversity is distracting and thins you out, like trying\u00a0to spread a gallon of paint over too large a surface.<\/p>\n<p>But on the other hand, <strong>if you focus strictly on one skill, then what do you do if something goes\u00a0wrong<\/strong>, whether it&#8217;s economic trouble, a personal accident, or a lack of interest from consumers or others in that particular field?<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention, it&#8217;s like trying to (if you don&#8217;t mind another analogy) build a house with only a\u00a0screwdriver, or a hammer, or a tape measure.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with having one main goal. Creative writing, freelance editing, or\u00a0whatever it may be. However, I think it&#8217;s best to make an effort to develop <strong>multiple skills<\/strong> that\u00a0may or may not complement each other.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also known people who have focused so much on one pursuit that they quickly reached\u00a0excellence. But just when they were really taking off, they burned out. <strong>We just can&#8217;t keep\u00a0operating forever at an obsessed level.<\/strong> Burnout doesn&#8217;t happen to everyone, certainly, but\u00a0you can&#8217;t be sure that it won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So, no, I have never regretted the time I spent writing and going to writing workshops. And\u00a0although I write fiction very rarely now, I still have benefited from the time that I did, and I\u00a0enjoy doing it yet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so thankful for OYAN, \u201creal\u201d writer or not. <strong>It&#8217;s changed my life for the better.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>How has creative writing helped you grow in other areas of life?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/BlaineHeadshot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2371791 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/BlaineHeadshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Blaine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blaine Russell is a homeschool graduate who spends most of his time working remodel and construction with a brother and dad, playing music with his family band, gardening, and trying to improve as a photographer. 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