Turning 30

I don't want to turn this thread into a personal blog of mine. All I'm saying is, that at a certain point you'll realize, that there is so much interesting stuff to do in this world but you just won't have a chance anymore to become good at it. Doesn't matter if you want to become an expert in a certain field or just go to bars and pick up a bunch of girls. If you don't start early enough, you'll be a dilletante at best and you can never learn everything you would like to learn. I got married this year and I'm already thinking about all the stuff that I'll teach my kid so he will achieve more than I ever did and I hate myself for it.

Getting rejected again.

West Branch, Slice, and a smaller but still very cool magazine called Flapperhouse. I guess I better start scrambling together a collection if I want to make the 25 cut-off then.

I'm 25 and I've recently been panicking about this and telling myself that maybe I should just have a kid in the future and make sure he takes advantage of his potential. But I've decided instead to basically LARP as my potential genius kid and see how I get on. I'm going to suffer poverty and humiliation in the near-future as a consequence of this decision but it's what I know I have to do in order to be anything more than a dull, regretful, burned out middle-aged nobody. If I had a wife or even a girlfriend I'd probably be less delusional and determined, but alas.

Congrats man and good luck. Want to share any links?

Appreciate it, bud. And let me mull it over for a little while. I have a bit of a phobia about posting personal info on here.

>Is there any worse feeling

Writing?

*its quality. Sorry for correcting, but hey, aspiring writer, get used to it.

Actually, they don't need to make money off your book, it can give them some other sort of benefit. Like reputation.

Good luck! I didn't panic enough at that age (not, that I didn't panic) and only understood now where it's probably too late. But maybe it's just me.

I want to be published!
>why
So people can read my stuff!
>so the money's no big deal?
I want money too!
>what about the readers?
I want those too!
>what about people who actually enjoy your stuff?
I want those too!
>how about writing some more, different works then?
No! It's the publisher's fault!
>can't you self publish?
I won't sell, I have no marketing!
>well, good luck then. Also drop the exclamation points, faggot.