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Novelist/Career Day at Balboa High School
- 3. All you have to do is write a novel.
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- 4. All you have to do is write a novel.
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- 5. All you have to do is finish a novel.
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- 6. First, I was just a kid who liked to write.
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- 7. So I went to a university that had an undergraduate
creative writing program.
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- 8. And I won writing awards.
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- 9. I was going to write
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL.
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- 17. So I got a job.
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- 18. And I was good at it.
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- 19. So I did it for 15 years.
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- 24. And then I bought a desk.
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- 28. I had no clue how to write a book.
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- 29. Because as a young writer, I wrote beautiful sentences.
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- 31. But I had no idea how to keep going.
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- 32. I had no idea how to write a story that was startling.
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- 34. So I took classes. I studied with writers.
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- 35. And I volunteered at 826 Valencia,
where got to know other writers.
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- 36. I went to graduate school.
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- 37. And I started a story about a girl who
was looking for a family.
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- 38. I really wanted to know what would happen to her.
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- 39. So I kept writing.
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- 45. When the book was finished, I got a literary agent.
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- 48. The book is now sold in bookstores.
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- 54. I became a writer by writing.
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- 60. If you want to write a book,
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- 63. So, if you want to be a writer, you can
study writing in college.
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- 67. Study biology or sociology or comparative religion or
physics or history or animal science or art.
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- 72. Also, there are a million ways to
make a living as a writer.
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- 74. This is how the writers I know make a living:
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- 77. And speaking. And graduate school.
And teaching or tutoring.
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- 78. Also commercial fishing, waitressing, investment
banking, house cleaning, internal medicine, advocacy.
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- 80. For the past two years, I pieced together a living.
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- 81. From grants, a book advance, judging literary arts
festivals, teaching, fellowships, speaking and consulting
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- 82. You have to be comfortable with financial instability.
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- 84. We have to believe in ourselves even when
no one else does.
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- 88. So if you write. Keep writing.
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- 92. And here:
YouthSpeaks and YouthRadio
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- 93. And here:
NanoWriMo and TILT and Rising Stars
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- 98. Novelist
Prepared by Erica Lorraine Scheidt for Balboa High School Career Day March 20, 2013
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