Comments | shoelace009: I'm not getting any younger.

shoelace009

I'm not getting any younger.

May 19, 2011 03:56

I'll be twenty two this summer. And with every passing moment comes the overwhelming realization that I am so far behind so many great writers who by my age had read more, written more, published at least something. I know many writers also did not, but it doesn't help the feeling that this will never happen for me.

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shoelace009 May 26 2011, 07:08:07 UTC

True. I really need to start submitting things. I just don't know where to start or where to submit. I've looked online and most places I found won't take anything without an agent.

So - you have three years to catch up to Keats - get with it ;^D derhofnarr May 19 2011, 18:46:47 UTC

When Keats died at the age of 25, he had been seriously writing poetry for only about six years.

Re: So - you have three years to catch up to Keats - get with it ;^D shoelace009 May 26 2011, 07:07:12 UTC

True. I just keep thinking about my life when I graduate and there is nothing I really want than to be a successful writer and that's just not a very promising dream. I want to live well just off my writing and do nothing but that and that doesn't happen for many people. I don't want to just write in a journal for the rest of my life. I want my writing to be important to somebody other than myself.

Re: So - you have three years to catch up to Keats - get with it ;^D derhofnarr May 26 2011, 20:22:36 UTC

It may be a trite statement but do what you love; the money will follow has a germ (botanical, not bacteriological;^) of truth in it.

Your writing is already important to someone other than yourself - otherwise you'd be looking at posts with no responses. Now - I want to live well just off my writing and do nothing but that 'tis a whole 'nuther creature entirely. You might want to pull out a sheet of paper [betcha haven't done *that* for a while, eh? ;^P] and expand/amplify on what you mean by the words "successful writer" and "live well" - and then bend your efforts and strengths to those specific goals. But *you* have to decide/define/focus on what those words (and you're a wordsmith,no doubt about that) mean - and then hone in on how to bring those meanings to fruition.