What's your excuse for not writing a best-selling book by the time you were 16, /lit/?
whenever I try I get dubs and have to stop
I don't have rich parents who are also publishers. Christ I just looked him up on Wikipedia, he's 32 now. Goddamn, time flies.
>>7475222
I'm not okay with being a hack held up by delusional parents.
>>7475222
My writing at 16 was awful. I want my work to be remembered for its greatness, not the age I wrote it at.
>>7475282
Are you older than 21?
>>7475222
best-selling dosn't mean well written
Christopher Paolini wrote aragon (its not well written but best-selling)
at 16 I was writing emo poetry and Fight Club fanfics, which probably would not have sold as well as Paolini's Lord of the Star Wars fanfics
>>7475302
Oh yeah, Aragon, the first book in the Lord of the Dragons series..
>>7475299
I am. And I'm not saying a writer can't be good at a young age. I'm saying that personally, I was a shit writer at 16.
>>7475261
They were actually really struggling with money when he finished his first book of the series and he saved them from it.
>>7475261
>he's 32 now
fuck you too man, ugh
