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Thursday, May 31, 2012

From the Archives: Ten-Year-Old Lauren Oliver, Budding Poet

Just because I've been writing for a long, long time doesn't mean I've been good for a long time. In fact, I always tell aspiring writers that it is critical to practice, to cultivate a discipline and a daily habit of writing, just as you would if you wanted to become a soccer player, cellist, marathon runner...or anything else, for that matter. Scientists spend years doing research; politicians spend years...well, I'm not sure what politicians do for years. Collect bribes, maybe?

The point is, I really agree with Albert Einstein when he said E = MC squared, and ALSO when he said that genius is 1 percent talent and 99 percent hard work. I didn't become decent at writing until very recently. And I can prove it!

Recently my father unearthed my attempts at poetic composition at the tender age of ten. We were living in France at the time, so the original (which is somewhat difficult to read) is written in French, although my ten-year-old self also handily included an English translation. In my defense, the poem does at least rhyme in French. In my counter-defense...there is no rhyme scheme; I am not sure why almost every line begins with "wooo"; and the subject matter...well, see for yourself.
Stay tuned for more "from the archives" posts!
xoLauren



25 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was not expecting this poem to about how much you wanted to kill your sister...

That was hilarious!

My first "novel" was a Harry Potter sequel wherein I was the hero and killed Voldemort. It was actually pretty good for an eleven-year-old. :D

Emily said...

haha! So funny, Lauren! :)

Unknown said...

Hahahaha, this was so funny! The first thing I ever wrote was in grade 2, I still have it somewhere, it was about a girl that gets kidnapped by alien's and they let her go because she gives them her sandwhich. It was stupid...

VikLit said...

Hee, brilliant, thanks so much for sharing that. So true that it's about persistence, have just been thinking along the same lines myself - I train for a 5k so one should writing a novel too!

Unknown said...

lol that is cute! Thanks for sharing!

Unknown said...

t'es mechante, toi!

Riv Re said...

That was brilliant. When I was nine, I wrote a poem about how much pain I was in when my sister hit me. There were lines about how I was drowning in my tears (I think I saw a shark swimming, too) and it made a second Great Flood...

Ah. Aren't kids so loving at that age?

Diana Julianna said...

Oh, je parle le francais, mais jus un peu, et c'est tres, tres, tres drole. J'adore ton... how do you say poem? Is it feminine? Am I supposed to say ta? O.O

Oh goodness...

Gabrielle said...

Wonderful poem... :)Thanks for continuing to write!

Also, I'm pretty sure Thomas Edison said the quote that you mention in your second paragraph, not Einstein. Just for accuracy.

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