/lit/ - Literature

What? Just put paragraphs together, you faggot.

Possibly but not always

Thomas Mann was only 25 when he published Buddenbrooks

>23
it's over

>>15129435
Wasn't too young for Joyce

It's never too late

>>15129473
>>15129446
it's too

at 23 it's impossible to have the life experience and insight that great writers have

without that you cant write anything good and get through the publisher gauntlet

>>15129435
>>15129443
>>15129444
>>15129446
>>15129452
>>15129473
>>15129480
I've experienced some crazy shit when I was 14-15. Video related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0dOZcSjOoE

23 is too late to get abs, learn to write, or draw properly

Sorry anon, better off yourself now

>>15129498
>23 is too late to get abs
huh?

The rest is largely true, however, with some exceptions, but only some.

>>15129498
the fit thread wasn't about getting abs you retard

>>15129435
What? Who says that? Just write.
Weinenger, chatterton, lautreamont the list goes on

>>15129435
Weren't you wanting to be a mathematician a few days ago? What made you change your mind?

>>15129542
i'm just weighting my options

>>15129435
Not necessarily, but white and male are too racist and patriarchal (respectively) to become a writer in this day and age, sweaty.

>>15129550
i'm neither of those

please jannies delete this self help trash which otherwise will reach 220+ replies.

>>15129565
anon care about other anon, fuck you

what if i just write about nostalgic experiences and my terrible childhood, lads? is that enough to make up for being 20.

>>15129546
I don't see why mathematics and writing would be mutually exclusive. Attend to university for mathematics, write on the side. If you're really feeling like it, take a few courses on writing or literature.

>>15129435
If anything it's too old to become a writer. I'm almost 23 and didn't start seriously writing until less than a year ago. What pisses me off is that I had been writing intermittently for like 8 years before then, but I didn't have the motivation to really practice it and work to get better. I have that motivation now, but it feels like it's too late and I mourn the time lost. It kills me to think about where I could have been by now if I hadn't been so lazy.

a-are you anons really serious that 23 is too late?

>>15129558
Ah, a nigger woman, I see

>>15129616
too late for what?

I'm 32 and I remember what an inexperienced piece of shit I was 10 years ago.

>>15129623
mixed race tranny actually

>a writer
That's not well-defined!

>>15129443
fpbp

First we had the faggots who think you can't become a writer after 25. Now we have this moron who fears you can't become a writer before 23. What the heck nigga, do you think the great writers magically grow invisible wings on their 24rd birthday?

No. Are you going to make it? No.

Wtf is w all the responses in this thread? NPCs be like:

>Thinking? Imagination? What's that?????

Just use your imagination, think of good stories and cool plots. Invent cool characters and concepts and write on what interests you.

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was just 18.

>>15129498

I literally became an artist (painter) when i was 23 lol. Late starters where you at .

>>15129723
>Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein

>>15129435
You're too old to become a writer.
Sorry, anon. It is over.

>>15129692
based fellow autistic mathchad

>>15129435
No you are just a failure on a scale worse than Light Novel authors so you try to make excuses like "I'm too young".

>>15129727
>I literally became an artist (painter) when i was 23 lol
I'd bet 100$ that you can't even do 2 point perspective properly

>>15129836

australian

>>15129723
Most good characters are real people changed just enough to avoid getting sued

>>15129435
You are never too young or old. What I would suggest is the following:
>Buy a book on screenwriting or storyboarding.
>Read novels of similar genre with a critical eye re techniques
>Have idea of direction your plot is to go in
>Collaborate where possible

>>15129847
This.

Don't listen to any of these faggots. Writers are born not made. If you're not writing by the time you pick up a pen, don't even try.

>>15129435
No, it's never too early or too late to start lifting. Oh, wait wrong board.

>>15129435
It's too late, Rimbaud realised that writing was for retards aged 19.

>>15129435
Read The Notebooks of Malte Lauridis Brigge and you'll find the answer

>>15129685
Not a real woman

>>15130011
This. Also if you daddy wasnt a pimp you aint a pimp.

Remember anons, people who say “it’s too late” to someone who isn’t going to die soon is a cope because they’re lazy

>>15129608
Exactly anon, I study maths and write on the side. Granted I suck at both, but still

>>15130011
>If you're not writing by the time you pick up a pen
what the fuck else you gonna use a pen for, dumbass?

>>15129723

And her husband, Percy, wrote all of his immortal work before dying aged twenty-five.

>>15130329
paint

Maybe. You'll seem naive and impressionable to a lot of people who can see through your influences and you'll probably cringe at it when you're older.

23 is honestly the perfect age to start seriously writing in my honest opinion.

>>15129608
Are you seriously kicking yourself because you weren’t a serious writer at 14 years old? In the 21st century no less? You’re the perfect age to START seriously writing so just do it.

superstitious obsession with numbers

It doesn't matter

>>15129435
I saw your thread on /int/