- Joined
- Aug 22, 2006
- Messages
- 262
- Reaction score
- 32
- Age
- 56
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
- Website
- www.underpope.com
My first career goal when I was a kid was to be a writer, though I confess I let a pulmonologist talk me out of that when I was ten or so ("You want to be a writer? That's an awfully sedentary task. Look for something where you'd move more." Joke's on him, though, I'm a web developer now.).
I picked it up again in high school, where I was told that I was a brilliant writer by all of my teachers (one English teacher even wrote in my yearbook that I was the "finest writer I've ever had the pleasure of teaching"). Then I dropped it while in college to focus on getting my philosophy degree, then after college to focus on my career in tech.
In 2002 I decided that I would start writing seriously again. And now, fifteen years later, I'm still collection rejections, most of them form rejections, and have rarely published any stories (my last one was in 2015, and it was in a "We'll give you either $5.00 or a contributors's copy" market).
And now I'm pushing fifty years old. No pro publications, no novels completed. Am I too old for this at this point? I feel like I am. Or maybe it's just the beer talking?
I picked it up again in high school, where I was told that I was a brilliant writer by all of my teachers (one English teacher even wrote in my yearbook that I was the "finest writer I've ever had the pleasure of teaching"). Then I dropped it while in college to focus on getting my philosophy degree, then after college to focus on my career in tech.
In 2002 I decided that I would start writing seriously again. And now, fifteen years later, I'm still collection rejections, most of them form rejections, and have rarely published any stories (my last one was in 2015, and it was in a "We'll give you either $5.00 or a contributors's copy" market).
And now I'm pushing fifty years old. No pro publications, no novels completed. Am I too old for this at this point? I feel like I am. Or maybe it's just the beer talking?