Do you think that age matters with regards to getting published? I'm seventeen years old and I've been seriously writing since 2009. I'm completely certain that writing is my forte, but I'd really an opinion on this.
thanks
Do you think that age matters with regards to getting published? I'm seventeen years old and I've been seriously writing since 2009. I'm completely certain that writing is my forte, but I'd really an opinion on this.
thanks
Even those who are older admit to writing for their own pleasure from your age. I was nineteen when I started writing and for years thought it was a silly pipedream that should be relegated to a hobby. In my experience, the quicker you take yourself seriously as a writer, the quicker you can get on with developing the voice you write with. Whether you are good enough to be published right now depends on your talent, life experience and how emotionally strong you are. I think the life of a 17-year-old varies wildly from person to person. When I was 17 my parents divorced, the boy next door died joyriding and I met the man I would later marry. Rather unusually, I was so grown up at that stage the opinions I had then are little changed, so perhaps I could have written, but my voice has certainly grown during the last five years of novel writing and I never could have taken the criticism I think I should be able to shoulder now. In fact, a neighbour gave a thoroughly honest opinion of a story when I was twenty and I didn't write again for six months. If you are ready to produce work of a publishable standard, bravo, but think very carefully about whether you can take criticism and, most importantly, adapt your work to any market required. That is the difference between a dreamer and a writer.
Sometimes it is like the save button gets stuck.
Really pleased to see that there are lots of 'young' writers on here.
Sorry, I thought it didn't post. hehe