Writing Has No Age Limit!

I am 18 years old. Now, when I tell people who don't know me, generally you guys from the internet, you always seem to be shocked when you find out. I turn 19 this year, in June... not sure how I feel about that yet, I don't really want to turn 19 because I like being able to say that I'm 18 and I'm a young writer... that's my selling point. Yes, you need a selling point, there are so many writers now that if you don't *pop* then nobody will take much of an interest in you. There will be a post on creating a USP in the future.



In February I wrote a post: Everyone Has a Story and in it I said that everyone knows enough by the age of 15 to write a series of novels. I agree with that 100%, if you don't know, I wrote my first novel when I was 15 and I planned several more... all of which are now in a huge folder that's tearing because of the weight. Of course it was complete and utter crap, I didn't know a lot about grammar etc. so I was just writing for the sake of getting the story out onto the page---it turns out that I bottle a lot of stuff up and so writing became therapeutic and a way to know myself, really know myself.



There is no age on writing. There is no age on creativity. I believe that creativity is a natural talent... in all its forms, writing, drawing, painting, sculpting, playing music... and people who are creative tend to have more than one of these skills.



The reason for this post is because someone who was older than me told me that I shouldn't publish until I was a little bit older, a little bit more mature... you know what I did right? I laughed at them, although I don't think people over the internet can really see me laughing, not unless I filmed it and sent it them. Anyway, I told myself, and it might be big headed of me, but I told myself that he was most likely jealous that I was doing something with my life at such a young age and he'd only wished he could achieve it.



I want to leave you with this quote---




"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemingway




I wrote a little verse for you guys based on the quote above.


I bleed, just as you bleed,

and I cry, just as you cry.

I am, after all, only human.



If you don't mind sharing; how old are you?


-Joseph




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