was what i did dumb?

Question

ok i want to be a author one day and also a sports writer anyway yesterday i emailed the oprah show saying im 15 and a aspiring author and saying how im am young but realy want to be taken seriously was this dumb or not i havent even told my parents about the email thou i did tell my mom i started writing a short story which is really good in my opinion ofcourse its my story lol but ya what do you think and how do you think my parents will re act when i get some sort of responce whether its semi postive or really positive should i tell em or should i just wait

thanks too both of yous and anyone else who wants to be positive

purpleso your tips were great unfourtanetly my highschool doesent have a school paper and btw if anyone would like to read my short story they can check it out i will somehow link it to em

Answer 1

You did nothing stupid. You wrote to someone that you admire and said what your aspirations are. You should be congratulated for that step!

Your parents love you and are who they are. You should tell them, but know that your life is yours to lead, and to lead means to make decisions and follow through with them.

Get involved with the community newspaper or your school newspaper. Find out if you can job shadow with the sports writer at the professional paper. Be the sports writer at your school paper. If you can't be the sports writer, then do something else in the paper world.

Take writing classes. Take communications classes. Contact colleges and learn about communications courses. Write to newspapers and magazines that you admire the work of and find out what sort of college courses and degrees their human resources people look at for hiring writers. Find out if you can intern for a publication during the summer, and express your interest in interning for a big publication when you are old enough to attend university.

Learn about the universities and colleges and contact them to find out about their communications and journalism courses. Consider majoring in English.

Know that a writer must be a well-rounded person, so take courses in school that reflect a world view. Anthropology, sociology, philosophy... photobgraphy. Attend all the community functions in your area that you can get to, from car shows to dog shows and craft fairs, even library read-to-the-children sessions, and listen, watch, feel, observe everything that happens.

Then write. Write write write. Include the W's. Who, what, when, why, where.... and HOW. Keep what you write in a folder or notebook, and then critique your own work, and ask for help critiquing it from an editor or reporter or teacher. Know that reporting and journalistic writing is different from writing a theme paper. Learn the differences.

If writing is to be your craft, then learn everything there is to know about it, and when you think you know everything, then find something else to learn.

Look for Writing Centers at your community college or university, where students go to have their papers critiqued by other students and professors. There are also online writing centers for many universities, including Oxford.

Best wishes, and do share your dreams with your parents!

Enjoy your journey (and don't forget to write about it, every step of the way)!

Answer 2

just tell your mom you contacted oprah and you are waiting on a reply. hopefully your mom will be supportive of your actions and you will get a positive response back from oprah's staff. good luck to you and never stop believing in your self or your dreams.

Answer 3

If that is your dream, you shouldn't let anyone or anything ruin it.