Can you become a great writer while being a wholesome family man with wife and kids?

can you become a great writer while being a wholesome family man with wife and kids?

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It's definitely harder. Most good writers love troubled lives. Conflict is what creates greatness.

*live goddammit
Sry I'm phoneposting

ignore the greatest novelist of all time was happily married with 12-13 kids. People will say his wife nagged him to death, but that's only later in his life. His best works were produced as a happy family man.

Yes it is possible, J.R.R. Tolkien did it rather well, even wrote a love story about him and his wife.
Were all gonna make it bros.

Tolstoy?

and we're supposed to know who the fuck you're describing?

no. writers for some reason need a fucked up life to create their art. happy people cant write. just look at women.

dan brown

Yes

Fucked up life only produce nihilistic literature.

Based bro user.

also romanticism, and romanticism is the best gender ever made

not necessarily

no, you need a happy outlook on life to write good romance.

>Romanticism is about romance
Tell me how I knew you were a pleb.

explain what it is then. no need to call names. anybody would assume it is about that with a first read of the word.

romanticism is essentially about freedom, but has a lot of other aspects, like ideal love, feelings over rationality, spoopy environment and so on

Shakespeare
Joyce, though he drank a lot

yes

>The group of words with the root "Roman" in the various European languages, such as "romance" and "Romanesque", has a complicated history, but by the middle of the 18th century "romantic" in English and romantique in French were both in common use as adjectives of praise for natural phenomena such as views and sunsets, in a sense close to modern English usage but without the amorous connotation.
>Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical.

You're framing this incorrectly. The problem with raising a family for an artist is not "losing your edge", it's the time/energy cost of maintaining relationships and bringing in enough resources to support yourself and dependents.

so is that possible?