Thaddeus Nowak's Blog: Thoughts and Observations - Posts Tagged "students"

I am honored to have been asked to come to Patton Jr. High on the 10th and speak with the students about writing. They plan to give me a tour of the school and have even setup a poster and asked for essays to be written for why they should be able to meet me in person. I'm definitely excited and I'm looking forward to it, but it is also quite different to be on the other side of the table.

This opportunity has meant that I needed to dust off my public speaking hat, something I have done a few times, but not on a regular basis. I may be speaking to as many as 200 students, which is definitely a thrill and so I have been working on my speech and getting ready for the event.

In writing the speech, I realized I was just a touch older than these students when I first got the bug to be a writer. It is a good, but somewhat startling feeling, to realize that I might actually be able to influence the next generation of writers. I had never really considered that when I started writing. Primarily I had been thinking about what I needed to do to make my book a success, not so much the impact of it. Now chance and timing might make this a much more rewarding endeavor than I had originally envisioned.