[ SECRET POST #2709 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2709 ⌋

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Comments

Re: should I quit writing and what should I do instead

[(Anonymous)]

I'd also like to add that very few people become "good" or "published" writers overnight. It is a long, slow process, and the only way to improve is to write - and to show your work to people eventually.

Fanfic can be a good way of exploring the editing process, before you're ready to move on to sharing your original stuff.

The example I like to use is Christopher Paolini, who wrote the Eragon series. He got successful at a young age (15 I think?), but the books aren't very good. But would he have been a better writer if he'd been published later, say when he was thirty or forty? He's missed out on all that time of learning and criticism which can be so valuable.

Re: should I quit writing and what should I do instead

[ariakas]

Yeah, definitely agree with your last part. I've never read a novel by a young "prodigy" writer that didn't read, well, like it was written by someone very young. (That's not a complement at all.) Taking some time for your ideas and your style to mature is not a bad thing at all.

I mean damn, my favourite "literary fiction" author is Cormac McCarthy and he's older than time. He wrote The Road when he was 73 (!!).

Re: should I quit writing and what should I do instead

[(Anonymous)]

part of me kinda feels sorry for Paolini tbh

like I think he probably had some good ideas but it was just "BAM! SPOTLIGHT!" and he didn't get any of the years of concrit or development or languishing around waiting for replies from publishers

and those things suck but they're also important

wow! I had no idea Cormac McCartney was so old! that gives me hope haha