1. Fictionalize This A Story You Have Probably Already Heard A Project by Ben Okin

2. Why Write?

3. Family Business

4. Why Write? Family Business Grandma!Great-Grandpa!

5. Why Write? Family Business Older Brother

6. Why Write? Family Business Older Brother Career Aspirations (Fallback)

7. Early Goals

8. Write Something Substantial

9. Early Goals Write Something Substantial Write Something Different

10. Summer Plans

11. Things to Get DoneWhat Got Done

12. Summer Plans Things to Get DoneWhat Got Done Lots

13. Summer Plans Things to Get DoneWhat Got Done Lots Nothing

14. Back to School

15. Back to School Fantastic!

16. Time to get started

17. Back to School Fantastic! Time to get started First meetings with Foard

18. Back to School Fantastic! Time to get started First meetings with Foard

19. Back to School Fantastic! Time to get started First meetings with Foard Start Writing

20. Back to School Fantastic! Time to get started First meetings with Foard Start Writing Stop Writing

21. Let’s Reconsider

22. What next?

23. Let’s Reconsider What next? Self-reflective fiction too personal Self serving Take a step back from own head

24. Let’s Reconsider What next? Self-reflective fiction too personal Self serving Take a step back from own head Novel vs. Essay

25. Let’s Reconsider What next? Self-reflective fiction too personal Self serving Take a step back from own head Novel vs. Essay

26. Stage Two “You Are Not as Smart as You Think You Are”

27. Why personal essays?

28. Stage Two “You Are Not as Smart as You Think You Are” Why personal essays? What and How?

29. Stage Two “You Are Not as Smart as You Think You Are” Why personal essays? What and How? Five scripts Five films

30. Stage Two “You Are Not as Smart as You Think You Are” Why personal essays? What and How? Five scripts Five films Time to write, again

31. Writing!

32. What Went Wrong?

33. Lots

34. What Went Wrong? Lots Got behind in other classes

35. What Went Wrong? Lots Got behind in other classes I was busy…

36. What Went Wrong? Lots Got behind in other classes I was busy… Got into college

37. What Went Wrong? Lots Got behind in other classes I was busy… Got into college More Importantly: Just not that into Montaigne

38. What Went Wrong? Lots Got behind in other classes I was busy… Got into college More Importantly: Just not that into Montaigne Most Importantly: Foard got (rightfully) fed up

39. What Went Wrong? Lots Got behind in other classes I was busy… Got into college More Importantly: Just not that into Montaigne Most Importantly: Foard got (rightfully) fed up Third Round

40. What’s that saying about the third time?

41. Time to push restart

42. What’s that saying about the third time? Time to push restart Still want to write

43. What’s that saying about the third time? Time to push restart Still want to write “Writers write”

44. Read Up

45. Writers Write

46. New Goals

47. New Mentor

48. New Goals New Mentor (Thanks Cromwell)

49. New Goals New Mentor (Thanks Cromwell) Keep writing “Jack Story”

50. New Goals New Mentor (Thanks Cromwell) Keep writing “Jack Story” Decide on realistic ending point

51. New Goals New Mentor (Thanks Cromwell) Keep writing “Jack Story” Decide on realistic ending point Beat Hayden Aldredge

52. New Goals New Mentor (Thanks Cromwell) Keep writing “Jack Story” Decide on realistic ending point Beat Hayden Aldredge Write, write, write, write, write, write, write

53. M-Term (and a little while afterwards)

54. I was finished!

55. What it meant:

56. I was finished! What it meant: I was finished

57. Challenges

58. Time and project management

59. Challenges Time and project management Confidence in my own writing ability

60. Challenges Time and project management Confidence in my own writing ability Simultaneously stepping inward and outward

61. Challenges Time and project management Confidence in my own writing ability Simultaneously stepping inward and outward Abandoning the tragic hero

62. Challenges Time and project management Confidence in my own writing ability Simultaneously stepping inward and outward Abandoning the tragic hero Accepting the “writer’s process”

63. What I Learned

64. Kid can write

65. What I Learned Kid can write The writer’s process actually works

66. What I Learned Kid can write The writer’s process actually works Writing comes with life experience

67. What I Learned Kid can write The writer’s process actually works Writing comes with life experience Writers also read

68. What I Learned Kid can write The writer’s process actually works Writing comes with life experience Writers also read I’m not the writer I thought I was

69. Future

70. Thanks Thanks Thanks Mark Foard Alexandra Cromwell Patty Lein Dale Scott Ken Sacks Katie Helfand Abigail Thomas Anyone who read for me Mom and Dad My whole family All of my friends, truly The Ross School

71. *Disclaimer*

72. Questions? Ask away