tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473536220656663781.post3599348984834616729..comments2016-06-11T12:52:59.428-07:00Comments on The Write Side of Life: The Age-Old Question (of Age)Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001952910081058448noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473536220656663781.post-71760429459699266062014-06-22T23:03:00.255-07:002014-06-22T23:03:00.255-07:00It always nice to know that we are not alone in ou...It always nice to know that we are not alone in our doubts! We both have plenty of time (knockonwood), and it's never too late. =) If Millard Kaufman can put out a debut novel at 90, then I suppose we haven't got much to worry about.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVieIDgBV2Y (Kaufman interview)Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05001952910081058448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473536220656663781.post-74719685069982276772014-06-18T07:23:06.545-07:002014-06-18T07:23:06.545-07:00As a 26 year old who does not even remotely have 2...As a 26 year old who does not even remotely have 20 years of writing under her belt, I am glad to see that even those who do still have these doubts. I spent much of my childhood daydreaming and making up stories in my head, or drawing (with a very long lapse between ages 14 and 20), but didn't actually write any of them down. Now I am hopeful to start learning about the craft and making it part of my career, and it is scary! So keep going. You're way ahead of a lot of us :) and really, you and I are both just getting out of our diapers and learning how to walk in the long timeline that is life.. still plenty of decades ahead.Jayhttp://jaybendt.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473536220656663781.post-33616937577128514152014-05-30T12:54:26.138-07:002014-05-30T12:54:26.138-07:00It's nice to know that I'm not the only on...It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who struggles with this! I too think about my wasted youth. I took about a 5 year break from writing (not purposefully, it just kind of happened), and when I reconnected with it, I realized how much I had missed it and how much I could have gotten done! I guess it's better to just focus on what is still to come—great things for both of us, I am sure! ;)Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05001952910081058448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473536220656663781.post-70184801756276153782014-05-17T21:47:30.945-07:002014-05-17T21:47:30.945-07:00FWIW, I'm 41. I started querying WINTER when I...FWIW, I'm 41. I started querying WINTER when I was 35. I started WINTER when I was 33. <br /><br />I'm going to try and not be that "you don't know nothing about age thing" in this response. I am insanely jealous of the "kids" these days getting deals, not because they are getting deals but because they had the wherewithal to follow follow through on their dreams...you are doing the same thing. I was a stooge and moron in my youth and if I'd had my head at least partially in the game I wouldn't be teaching right now, but I'd be making a living as a writer. <br /><br />Stick with it. I've written three trunk novels that will never see the light of day, two because they are lost in the bottom of a tote somewhere in my parents basement if they weren't thrown out because I didn't write on a computer (sorry, I said I wasn't going to do the whole "whippersnapper" thing). One was a mess of a contemporary novel about losers working in the retail food industry, the other two are fantasy monsters that I'm pretty sure suck. (One was a Gor pastiche that was pretty bad.) I've also had dozens and dozens of partials that are strewn all over the central NY area by now, not to mention the ones on the various memory storing equipment in my home. <br /><br />It'll happen, don't pay attention to what other people are doing, that's the shortest route to insanity.John Zeleznikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10301257444191880316noreply@blogger.com