Jared Reck
Again, going into teacher-mode, I share my all-time favorite writing quote with my students on the first day of school every year--a line from Stephen King's ON WRITING:
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut."
The simple fact is, I wouldn't even be a writer if I hadn't first been a teacher. It was with my students that I first started reading--and absolutely loving--YA lit. Chris Crutcher, Laurie Halse Anderson, John Green, A.S. King--these were the writers that just leveled me in my first few years of teaching. And it was with my students in Writing Workshop that I first started studying and writing in different genres--memoir and poetry and short fiction.
So. Back to the original question. Read a lot. Write a lot. Figure out what you love.
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut."
The simple fact is, I wouldn't even be a writer if I hadn't first been a teacher. It was with my students that I first started reading--and absolutely loving--YA lit. Chris Crutcher, Laurie Halse Anderson, John Green, A.S. King--these were the writers that just leveled me in my first few years of teaching. And it was with my students in Writing Workshop that I first started studying and writing in different genres--memoir and poetry and short fiction.
So. Back to the original question. Read a lot. Write a lot. Figure out what you love.
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