: Life as a writer rarely means that you get to write and not do anything else. The number of writers (excluding journalists and other purveyors of non-fiction, usually on assignment) who make

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Life as a writer rarely means that you get to write and not do anything else. The number of writers (excluding journalists and other purveyors of non-fiction, usually on assignment) who make a living exclusively from their writing is very small. Almost all writers have some sort of day job, some teaching, others engaged in other quotidian endeavors. It's those jobs that actually pay the bills and not the writing itself. Failure to do the day job means failure to get paid which means failure to be able to provide oneself with food, shelter and clothing, which means inability to write.
I say all this as a prologue to pointing out that as an eleven-year-old, your school work is your job. Schoolwork has to come first, unfortunately (or not—I'll get back to that). You can use your writing as a means to motivate yourself to finish school work. For example, finish your math homework, you get 15 minutes of writing time (you'll need to adjust the balance according to your actual workload). You can talk with your language arts teacher about your writing and perhaps find a way to turn your book writing into school work (I had a high school teacher who decided the best use of my senior year English class was to write a novel rather than to do the reading).
Now the other thing that's worth noting is that as a writer you need to be endlessly curious about everything. Turn your schoolwork into research for things you might write about. How can you take the things you learn in science class or history or social studies and employ them in your own writing? Even the math can be helpful, if only to persuade yourself that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. One thing that you might find useful is writing out how to do the math that you're learning. You'll develop the ability to express complex thoughts and as an added bonus, you'll understand the math better.
You're young, so you there's a lot more that you don't know than you do know. Think of school as a way of expanding your idea bank so you'll never run out of things to write about.

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