Burroughs published when he was 39

>Burroughs published when he was 39
>Wallace Stevens published when he was 35
>Burgess was published when he was 39
>Raymond Chandler was published when he was 51

What is Your cope, Yea Forums?

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The one that surprises me here is Burgess. He was so brilliant you'd think he'd have first been published when he was 20.

>still fantasizing about being an author
Americans dont really do this?

>Americans
I'm European.

I don't have a cope anymore. I accept that I've failed in life and that every aspiration I had in my youth has been crushed primarily by my own inactivity and incompetence. I'm just waiting it out until I work up the courage to sodoku.

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i'm taking notes

It's a question I've fretted over for a while. In my early 20s I was full of ambition and certain I'd be published by 26. But I continued working full-time, observed from afar the publishing industry and saw that I wouldn't fit in in my natural state, and so on. I did publish a short story in my mid-20s, but I realized that I had simply rushed it out so that I would have something to my name, the quality and style lacking and therefore letting me down. At this point I'm 27 and no longer feel that burning ambition, despite being in a situation now where I'm financially stable and have more freedom / time to write. Not sure what the future holds, I just don't feel worthy of being published any more as I grow older and realize I'm not this flawless, morally faultless person. Thanks for reading.

have you anyone GOOD?

What makes You think others are flawless, morally faultless people/writers? That seems unrealistic.

Dostoyevsky had a good start in his 20s with Poor Folk but The Double had a very lukewarm response and he seemed set to fade into obscurity. He flirted with atheism, got involved with socialist radicals and ended up close to execution and spent four years in a siberian prison and served another four in the military and had come out a changed man who then started to write his best works in his late 30s and 40s onwards.

House of the Dead would have been an impossible work without his experience, he could never have had such a borderline-prophetic insight in Demons etc without all those mistakes in his past.

Let us not dwell on the failings of our 20s, until we are spiteful men.

I've always fantasized about being an author but I'm 26 and have never written anything, feelsbad.

thanks for this thread OP
gives a loser like me a little bit of hope

start writing

My pleasure, man. This shit is hard.

why the fuck do you consider 30's to be late bloomer tier years? the despair and seemingly vain struggle one goes through up through your twenties eventually culminates in the knowledge/wisdom'/maturity to actually succeed at something. you can't possibly even know close to enough to do anything of merit in your twenties in this modern day. of course, if you read too many fucking facebook posts about "this one trust fund baby started a business at 17 and is now a gorillionaire at 21!" and read the bios of the occasional Keats-types of the past, then I'd understand why you believe that.

The numbers in the OP are just a coincidence. Relax or take Your meds, faggot.

I don't, but I realize now that money won't do anything for me, and that attention / praise will do nothing, because all that matters to me really (and always has) is that I can bear my own company. Since I can't really bear spending 100% of my time around someone with a guilty conscience, I don't feel like I ought to try and help him (i.e. my identity, etc) become popular or successful.

>coincidence
I do not think it means what you think it means.

To provide some additional trivia:

George Saunders
>26 first short story published
>38 first book

Raymond Carver
>38 first book

Kent Haruf
>41 first book

Michel Houellebecq
>35/36 first book (about Lovecraft)

Goncharov
>35 first book published

John Edward Williams
>26 first novella
>~38 second book (first he's known for)

Daily reminder that a lot of writers publish young but later regret having done so, including John Edward Williams, Tobias Wolff, and more I don't know about.

You need to go back.

Joseph Conrad couldn't speak fluent english until he was in his 20s.

Never forget the Goddess Of Wicked Glee, whose analytically ball-busting chart-like majesties didn't commence till her 40s, and of which all but a few apprentice-pieces were published only posthumously. I giggle when I think about how unpacking her to students gives Bloom a migraine every time, and I'm the Stevensian here.

S.E Hinton when she was 17.
Kafka wrote the metamorphosis when he was 14
Anne Frank wrote a diary about how much she loved to finger herself when she was 15

americans who go on to become published authora do

I’m 25, and spent most of my adulthood until now working on music, which I only achieved moderate success at, and that’s being generous. Now I want to write, and have been writing, a lot. I think I’m more or less okay with the idea of dying in obscurity, but that doesn’t really deter me from wanting to continue writing. I’ll try to get published, I’ll probably make more music too, and maybe nobody will ever read or listen to any of it, but who cares?

I use writing to log my thoughts and pinpoint ideas. As well as create new ideas and explore old ones and their relationships. I can't see myself writing a long book. It's only use for me is helping me categorize and organize my thoughts and emotions. Writing is a tool.

Hey man, if you need a second just let me know if you want to go Nip style or Roman like a true patrician and I'll be there.

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I'm 28 and just started writing myself, after fantasizing about it for years just like yourself. It's liberating. Its amazing. I'm so bad but I dont care (that is until I read something so beautiful it makes me never want to write again, but I think this happens to everyone) because I'm not banking my future on my success. You should start my man, it's so much fun. The only hope I do have is that I get good enough for my kids to make a little money off me after I die, but I've got plenty of time for that.

You're a tool.