Is 30 too old to become a writer?

Is 30 too old to become a writer?

Has life already passed me by?

definitely not. I don't think you should attempt a novel before you're 30 unless you're a try hard faggot who thinks he knows more than he does.

no nigga start writing

Do you famalam

>am smarter then u cus im oldah

You are too fucking nice Veeky Forums.

Thank you.

The age you will be when you're an accomplished writer is the same age you'll be if you let your dreams pass you by. Food for thought.

it might feel very late but then again, think of Gaddis and some others. If you're talented, you might debut with something very good (e.g. with a work better than debuts of all the big stars, written at 24, 25 et cetera)

oh, such blatant generalization. if you look at bell curve, there might be lots of people who hit some high grounds way before 30, probably it's just that small % of them is interested in writing (it's not a super big field, trust me)

not to mention the weekly
>not being published by 25
threads.

Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises at 25

Frank McCourt started to write in his 60s, Toni Morrison wrote her first novel at the end of her 30s, Helen DeWitt in her 40s (great writer, underdiscussed here), Raymond Chandler became a detective story writer after he lost his job in his 40s, heaps of good writers out there who started late, or started when the time was right

starting old already adds dramatism to your artistic story. should i even say that you should go for it?

Maybe if the age is your concern, you shouldn't writing at all.

exactly

Percy Bysshe Shelley died at 29
Mozart died at 35
Van Gogh died at 37
Jimi Hendrix died at 27
Alexander the Great died at 33

Good thing these people didn't wait to do something with their lives

Of course not.

If you have the ability, drive, and background, you're never too old to start trying. Successful novelists have kick-started careers in their teens, twenties, thirties, and beyond.

Jhumpa Lahiri published her first collection of short stories at 32 and won the Pulitzer Prize for it.

(to be fair, she also has a PhD and wasn't a 32-year old NEET wasting her time eating hotpockets and playing vidya)

Yes, sorry. Prepare for the grave.

Naw nigga, too old is a spook (unless you're fucking 80 or something). If you have actual skills and talent you can do it. The Gassman didn't publish his first novel until he was 42.

>equating Mozart to Hendrix

Racist.

>equating
No I didn't?

not smarter but wiser, it's a cliche but it's true
see

lmao ok there gramps

>Shelley
an outlier and the only writer on that list?

there's outliers but you have to admit that most 20 somethings are conceited pricks who think they've figured a lot out and will probably have their worldview shattered by the time they're 30, which is the perfect time to start actually writing

>ah the old "old ppl don't know what they're talking about because they're not young and hip" meme

in many cases, good stories require wisdom. if you're young you're usually not wise because you lack experience.

get out your lunchables cause you still got a lot to learn about sonny

im 30 and just figured out that im kinda dumb, been in denial my entire life but time to accept it. oh well.

when Percy Bysshe Shelley was alive reading books was one of the only ways for smart kids to amuse themselves. in 1800 your avg nerd at 20 had better literary training than his modern equivalent does at twice that age. their minds were sharpened up and ready to produce content much younger. most 30 year olds today have spend at least 5 years of their lives on videogames, TV, porn and internet bullshit. doubt that OP is an exception

its too easy to waste time now

Literature is the medium where you need a bounty of life experience for your creation. A problem with starting late, though, is that you need to spend some time building your prose skills while those who started young don't have to think about style and construction by the time they're 30 because its all intuitive.

Most writers are conceited pricks, so that's a point for 20-somethings, I guess.

I wonder Veeky Forums, what do you consider as good or great writing on, say, a fictional story. Is it a special way with words, a great depth of vocabulary that complements the story or simply a good story telling and scenario even if the vocabulary isn't that sophisticated?

mastery has left us, Spengler wrote about the output of the Baroque masters which was never again matched by the Romantics or the Moderns. People don't have the will to produce greatness any longer, its incredible we got Pynchon, Bolano, Houellebecqu

Even if you were under 30 the odds would be against you. They're against most people. Just write if you want to write.

this

write for yourself and nobody else. the rest will follow.