I mean I think five to eight-year olds for whatever they wanted to do, my advice would just be to try everything that you want to do, you know. So like if someone was like, “I’m five. I want to be a writer,” I would be like, “Cool. You should go and get a boat and you should sail across the ocean and you should climb a tree and you should eat a banana and you should tell me what that banana tastes like and you should make a soup out of it. You should come back and you should fall down and then you should get back up and you should ride a horse and all those kind of things.” Like experiences, experiences, experiences.
And I think if you’re like 16 or 18 and you feel like you’ve had a couple experiences and now you’re like, “Well, what do I need to do to become a writer?” I would say, “Just start writing.” It’s like the most basic thing but like the stuff that you write when you’re younger, whoever you are, you’re going to look back at it and be like, “That’s awful. I can’t believe I wrote that. What was I thinking? I’m an idiot. I can’t believe I showed that to anybody.”
So like I would say if you’re a kid, just do that. Just like make something. Try to give it to people. Let them judge you. Make something else. Give it to more people and just keep going and that’s going to make you stronger as a writer. It’s going to condition you to want to write often. It’s going to, you know, help you explore new styles and ideas.
