You're Never Too Young

C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia) was only 8 or 9 years old when he started writing his first book, a fantasy novel called Boxen.
Stephen King was 13 when he wrote and sold his first horror stories to friends at school-- for a quarter!
Gordon Korman was in 7th grade when his first "Bruno & Boots" book, This Can't be Happening at McDonald Hall, was published. By the time he graduated from high school he'd had four more novels published!

Were these guys all geniuses? No. Did their moms or dads own publishing companies? No. Were they just lucky? No! They just didn't let being a kid stop them from trying to get published.
Kids today are doing the same thing.

Mollie McDougall, a 15-year-old in New York, has had more than 60 poems and stories published. A poem she wrote at age ten ("The Peace Child") has been published on greeting cards and in an anthology called A View From the Edge.

Adam Moore, a nine-year-old in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, wrote a humorous true story called The Broken Arrow Boy, about the time he fell and ran an arrow into his head. His book was published by Landmark Editions.

A 12-year-old named Gretchen Anderson sold her book, The Louisa May Alcott Cookbook to Little, Brown Publishers. It started out as a school project when she was just nine years old!

Murder, Mystery and Mayhem, a humorous mystery novel by 15-year-old Jennifer Carnell, was also written in school-- in physics class! (Makes you wonder what kind of grades the author got in physics, doesn't it?)

Then there's She was Nice to Mice by 12-year-old Alexandra Sheedy;

New Hampshire Pride, written by fourth graders in the Contoovook Valley School District; and Reach for the Moon, a collection of stories and poems by 16-year-old Samantha Abeel. Do I need to keep going?

These are just a few examples of the kid-authored books, poems, plays, magazine and newspaper articles out there. It's not impossible.

If you want to be a writer, don't wait-- start now!