I want to know more about you guys?

24
High school dropout, then went back and finished. Became a college dropout soon after, but then sort-of finished. Majored in philosophy, currently trying to major in mathematics (undergraduate) and doing a master cognitive sciences with focus on cognitive neuroscience.

I started writing when I was 16, but I stopped realizing I have no talent whatsoever. Sent a few short pieces back then, all got reject. Tried again last year with three or four stories, all of them got reject as well. Not working ATM, but I want to get a job in order to leave alone, a hard thing to do considering there is no much work I'm capable of doing.

>How is life going?
pic related

23

I have no job, I do not write, I do not read

Very badly

23. I live in China teaching Chinese people English. Right now I'm in a severe amount of pain because the girl I was sleeping with kneed me in the balls during the act, but otherwise it's a day off work and I'm gonna use it to do some writing on my long-term novel about scifi cops in Hong Kong.

Hang in there, guys. Keep writing no matter what. It'll help.

>How old are you?
24
>Do you write for a living or you do something else?
No, military. Going to be finished with my first enlistment soon, don't know if I wanna be an archivist or librarian.
>How is life going?
It ok, money is starting to get tight in my family, so I might have to hold off on college until we find some financial stability.

19, working in a menial job to pay rent but training to being a truck driver.
Kinda just experimenting with reading and writing at the moment. Was raised in a household where I wasn't allowed to draw or write creatively so I'm really struggling to find writing easy or comfortable or even what to write.

I turned 22 in January.
I work at Starbucks. Sure would like to write for a living.
Just moved in with my gf in February in the big city. Been taking a few months to collect myself and figure out what I want to do. I'm trying to develop discipline so that I'll actually write. Mom wants me to go back to college but I don't think I'm going to. Life's been troubling recently but now I feel like the winds are gonna change for me.

Thanks for making this thread, user.

19

History undergrad

Closest I ever get to 'artistic expression' are the essays I have to produce every week. Parents had the standard ambition for me to become a lawyer or engineer; so creative writing has never been something seriously promoted in the household. Would like to make a start at some point though. Trouble is, I'm not sure if I have anything worth saying.

Life could be worse, but it was difficult making the transition from secondary school to uni. Comparatively, it's been a fairly lonely experience thus far. Doubt it's that special a story though-- I'm almost certain that most of us are here because of the quasi-isolation we endure in real life.

>It ok, money is starting to get tight in my family, so I might have to hold off on college until we find some financial stability.
Same here.
College is free, but I don't know if I can arrange a schedule to work and study at the same time.
My parents don't want me to work, but I don't want to be a leecher.

>Mom wants me to go back to college but I don't think I'm going to.
If you can major in something that will give you a better job, do it.

>How old are you?
21
>Do you write for a living or you do something else?
I'm a physics undergrad currently working on my thesis.
>How is life going?
I'm from Venezuela so it's going pretty bad.

22
I don't do anything. I'd like to finish school. But I hate it. I bum around from what money I have saved from place to place and job to job. I love someone who lies and tells me they love me. I don't think things are going to work.
I'm trying. Losing hope. I write sometimes, it's not very good.

The Post 9/11 bill covers everything, including living expenses. It just doesn't feel right, having it all paid for, while my folks and brother are struggling. I got 10 years before it expires, so I got time.

I'm 25 and a NEET. My life is in shambles.

I'm 19. I live in Spain and I'm a History undergrad. Started writing short stories in September of 2015 and ,looking at my first writings, I see clear improvement from then, which feels really cool. I didn't write shit for a month now because of exams, but I got some ideas and I want to write a shitton in the summer. Didn't make any money from writing yet, I'm waiting for the results of three short story contests tho. I don't think I'll win none of them, but whatever.
Life could be better, but it's not bad. I play in a band and have a good time going to concerts with peeps, I got a cool friend who is also into literature and memes... in the other side, I sometimes find myself trapped, I live in a shithole of a city (even for Spanish standards), this course was pretty dull at uni and I didn't study shit and I sometimes feel kinda lonely even if I know it's my own fault and decision; most people seem boring to me and I feel lazy about most social events. Guess it will solve itself tho.

20 years old.
I write occasionally, and just wrote a film me and a girl from work are going to start going ahead with. We'll be using a bunch of co-workers for actors, crew, hell even a guy will be making an original score. A lot of people there are hipsters just trying move into one career or another.

Life's going pretty well! Can't complain. Living a thousand miles away from where I grew up, with an older girlfriend who loves me and steady work.

Just wish I had enough money to go back to school, I deferred a semester and am worried it wont just be a deferred by a regular ol' drop out.

23

Finishing up creative writing undergrad, working on a novella for a thesis, going for an MFA next year.

Most other English majors I meet don't read much more than Harry Potter, Jane Austen, and YA shite.

24, graduated with a degree in English on the creative writing track. Minored in Psychology and Philosophy.

I fix printers professionally. It's a pretty decent job, 14 dollars an hour plus expenses and benefits, but I desperately wish to return to academia. Maybe it's just because I've been in school all my life but I really miss the environment, as stuffy and pretentious as it can be. I'm trying to get some cash and go study in England, pursue some sort of MFA, but I'm not very sure this will ever happen.

As far as writing goes, I write around 500 words a day, trying to produce one novel a year, minimum. Hoping that by producing enough volume that I'll be able to "git gud." Last novel came out pretty well, getting decent reviews from first readers, won't likely be able to get anything done with it because I'm shit at networking and PR and all that side of everything.

Life is mostly meh, more or less from my own doing, realizing that this will likely be the rest of my life and that I was lied to for years being told that I had potential to be something.

>Jane Austen
I like Austen brah
I wouldn't put her in the same bag with Potter and YA.

18

I write roughly 7000 words a week and my old English teacher from high school is editing my first book rn for publication, probably be a while before publication. I also read a bunch. It started with Ray Bradbury freshman year and rn I'm trying to see if I can understand Kant. It's not going too well.

Really great. Left home last year at 17 because of family issues and dropped out. Couch surfed for about 6 months before I got a job as a machinist making 14 (now 17.35) dollars an hour. Got my GED a few months after dropping out and now I'm planning on going to the university of Kansas in August as a linguistics major on a bunch of scholarships. I shouldn't have to take out loans unless something happens and I lose my job or scholarships. I'm also taking classes at night rn at the local CC to start as a sophomore.

This is going to sound weird, but could you describe your job fixing printers?

Also post your work, if you are comfortable in doing so

>Last novel came out pretty well
Post name, or email me the name if you're not comfortable posting the name here.
I want to read it.
[email protected]

>with an older girlfriend
how old is she?

Service Tech. Drive around, fix things, started less than a year ago. I'm in the US, mid-atlantic region.

Any particular reason why?

Manual machining or CNC?

21.

I'm on my final year of college, """""""writing"""""" my dissertation atm.

It's good, I'd say. Something is taking its course.

CNC

I did 3 years of shop class w a shark pro plus, so I wasn't completely clueless starting our

Got the job through nepotism tho

23

I do nothing all day every day

No friends, no prospects, no drive, poor mental health and i bite the shit out of my tongue in my sleep and it's agony to add insult to injury, my tongue is half falling off and shredded

wear teeth guards that athletes wear for your tongue problem

I have twenty one years

The less I think about the current state of my life the better it gets.

good idea ty

>How old are you?
27
>Do you write for a living or you do something else?
Writing has strictly been a hobby since I was about 12 or something. I only feel like I've gotten decent in the last year or so. I've been sharing my latest work around a bit, waiting for someone, anyone, to slam it into the ground and tell me what's wrong with it, because nobody has been giving me negative feedback.
Coming to Veeky Forums about it has been a last resort.
>How is life going?
My family say I'm not doing anything worthwhile; the fact that I'm happier than them and still saving money begs to differ.
Idunno, I work a manual labour job with some great folks, and I write during breaks and before bed. It's a routine, but 4 years of it and I'm not burned out yet.

what do you write? if its similar to mine I'll critique it

It's mostly dominatrix erotica with strong undertones of German Idealism

I can give u a Google docs copy if u want

if you are joking hit me with a link, if you aren't, hit me with a link

nice try m8, but dominatrix a shit

If you're that curious; it's a light cyberpunk slice-of-life, though the plot does move.

>How old are you?
20, just graduated from university.

>Do you write for a living or you do something else?
Majored in Computer Science. Occasionally shit post on Veeky Forums and hang out with my girlfriend when I have free time.

>How is life going?
It's okay.

Hey man, good on you. How was the GED by the way? Did you study for it at all, because knowing the type of people who get it, it should be incredibly easy.

t. 2400/2400 sat scorer

Not published or anything m8, but I can send you a google doc or something.

I'm 26. Never had any plans to write for a living. I'd like to be a professor, but I'm still a graduate student at the moment, and currently work from home grading tests.

Life is going very well. I'm about to get through three fairly major accomplishments within the next year: marriage, buying a home, and having a kid. I'll also be finishing my MA and starting PhD work, with one conference later this year and two papers in review I'm hopeful about.

I'm picking up some more low-key hobbies for when the baby's here, and in general having lots of fun with life. Might be partly because of eating much healthier now too.

For the past couple of months (and likely for most of the summer) I've been working 60+ hours a week to build more income for the three aforementioned big steps, but I thankfully have a relaxing job. It leaves me little time to read though. I've read 50 books so far this year, but most have been art books and children's books.

Nice, what are you studying?

...

What's your novel about?

Literature. More specifically, Japanese stuff.

Can you send me it too?

[email protected]

It's very different from the Sat and act. And I did study quite bit for it, tho probably didn't have to in hindsight.

But with a 2400 Sat, I think you'll be okay

i was kidding about being a 2400 sat scorer (i got a 2130), but i am an 18 year old drop out. What was the hardest part of the GED, and what should I study for? I took ap/honors classes and the highest math i took was AP calculus, but dropped out due to lung cancer

Reinterpretation of the Grail Quest/Fisher King mythos set in the American West in 1907. Focuses specifically on the Galahad/Lancelot interaction and takes place in a sort of fractured timeline which would technically be after the fall of King Arthur's Court.

Math is usually the hardest part, but if you did okay on the sat, u will be fine.

Writing is also usually a tough part. But most of the test really is common sense. They want you to pass, don't stress it.

thanks my nigga

Should I still study for it, though? Or just take it tomorrow.

Shared.

Just take it tomorrow. If you think you know everything covered up till 10th grade, you'll be fine.

Hows the cancer btw

can i read it?

21 year old from slav western europe country, webdev, life is neither good or bad and I don't care if it ends in the next 1 minute or if I live forever.

Terminal cancer now. I have about seven months left, but I might as well get my GED before I die.

And what do you mean by most of the test being common sense? Can you give me an example of a question?

19 years old.
Currently in school majoring in Chemical/Materials Engineering.
Life isn't going that great; I'm constantly depressed and really wish I would be less lonely. This is more of an internal sense of loneliness that I feel can't be changed, which kind of adds to my depression.

Like defining what a noun and verb are, the arc of a plot, how to read a graph, simple shit

lol. Thanks.

Sorry to hear that m8.
If the universe is truly infinite I suppose we'll see you around again.

23, with a rich as fuck dad

Same. Even with a girl friend or someone who knows me who I consider close I feel like I'm living in my own head if you know what I mean. I've learned to push through it. I still feel it pretty much all the time, but at least I spend my time being miserable doing something, and that sort of helps.

Anybody else like this? I hope it changes as I get older, but I'm not sure.

Try to fuck her dad

Thank you for sending the book.
Since you said it was getting good reviews I thought it was already published.

I've read a few pages, it seems good so far.

Is he handsome?

I feel you man. All I want in this life is contentment. Not even extreme happiness and I just can't find it. I wish I didn't exist. Fuck this gay earth.

wishing is death

I am and I'm 27 and for me it gets worse and worse. Every year I feel more and more detached and more dissapointed with my life.

All I can do is laugh.

I have an extremely loving, supporting family, but I still feel isolated and alone in my thoughts, and I can't imagine how anybody doesn't feel utterly alone, if they actually think about it.

Used to like getting drunk or high, but nowadays getting high amplifies the isolation and getting drunk negatively impacts reading/writing/school busywork, and when I can get lost in that stuff it's much healthier and more fulfilling than the substance abuse, so I'm trying not to spoil it.

He's rich enough to close your eyes and dive on in, if that means anything.

How old are you? 19
Do you write for a living or you do something else?
Hell, I wish. Although, I'm a university student so I guess writing is part of my life right now.
How is life going?
Good. I just got accepted into a top tier school in the States as a transfer student. Now that it's summer break, I'm going to be just working and reading on my spare time.

what school faggot

University of Phoenix

An Ivy, think Penn/Columbia/Dartmouth

Nice, where'd you transfer from? How did you do it? I currently have a 3.9 at Duke, but want to go to Brown

Just say it you yuppie

Okay, I'm transferring to Penn.

Transferred from a top NESCAC with a 3.5... If you have a 3.9 at Duke, It's completely possible. Just write good essays and recs, what else can I say? Duke is an awesome school though, why would you want to transfer?

Sure. You got an email? I'd rather not invite the collective scorn of Veeky Forums at large.

To make my friends jealous that I'm going to the same school Emma Watson went to. I really like Brown.

Sorry to disappoint, but your Duke friends wouldn't likely be impressed with Brown. Also, in the case you were transferring, you won't be seeing your Duke friends anymore.

I'm 21, finishing my final exams for my English and Philosophy I should earn this summer. Gradually improving in my handling of clinical anxiety but shit is hard, especially these weeks.

Hey user, I'm also a high school dropout that is now doing my MSc in a field related to cognitive neuroscience.

ulysseskaramazov @ yahoo.com

I'm 29 years old. Been on Veeky Forums a while.

At the moment I'm a bit of a NEET. I live with my parents, though recently I spent about two years in New York City. I got my undergrad degree about five years ago and am waiting to see if I get into graduate school. That's kind of keeping everything in limbo, because if I don't get in I can move wherever and find work.

I love to write. Writing is what I love more than anything. I've actually gotten a few short stories published, all of them in the last few months, so I'm really starting to be excited that things are looking up for me, career-wise. I've written a novel I'm trying to get published, and am currently writing that novel's sequel. I kind of wish I could find a wealthy patron who'd send me money while I worked, the way James Joyce did, but I don't think the world works like that any more. My fear is that, while I'd like to get a steady job, it would leave me incapable of writing to the extent I prefer.

Life's going all right. As I said, waiting for graduate school has held everything up. I don't want to be a burden on my parents or anyone, but I'm relentlessly driven to write. I actually worked a few temp jobs in New York, but I could never hold down steady work because I was constantly thinking about my writing and it interfered with my performance.

I want to create beauty with words and tell stories the world will never forget. That's my real life's goal.

>23
>I used to, and I went to school for it KEK
>I'm addicted to opiates and heroin and I live in a drug den

All in all it's pretty good

25
meme marketing consultant, lite writing
>How is life going?
This year: 7/10
Past 30days: 8/10
Today: 5/10

>1
I'm 22.

>2
I don't and I do not plan on writing for a living. However, I do plan on writing books in my free time because I am a decent writer. I know I have the talent, but the biggest step for me would be giving it to a good publisher. There is always self publishing, but marketing would be a problem.

>3
Life is alright. I went to the United States Military Academy for three years then flunked out due to my bad cumulative GPA since I am terrible at Math and Science courses. I kind of want to do the military still.... but not really anymore. I valued my friends and fellow Cadets more than the idea of being in the military itself. I plan on majoring in Middle Eastern Studies with a Communications minor then going to Middle East as a Combat Photographer. I would love to publish photo essays on war and conflicts. Even the way people are affected by prolonged warfare.

>There is always self publishing

Confirmed for no talent

You left the military to work at Starbucks? Why didn't you just stay in or cross train?

I'm just under twenty, but I feel I have some worthy advice: not writing for a bit and experiencing a different side of life is probably one of the best ways to improve your writing. In fact it's sort of become my method, where I go weeks without writing a thing, or maybe a few poor quality bits, but then suddenly I just overflow with creativity and my fingers are just flying on the keyboard while listening to Devil's Trill Sonata (after days of only dubstep and classic rock).
Go take up a part time job that works 7-3, or go volunteer at a place. Getting out and seeing the world is probably the best way to learn how to emulate it.

Story on this image?

>Confirmed for no talent

k