I'm a 32 year old loser (not a neet) with practically no life experience who spent the last 10 years playing vidya and smoking weed although I don't do either anymore. Can I still be a writer?
>>24850130you'll probably peak around visual novel level
>>24850130No harm in trying. Dedicating your life to something is far more gratifying than wasting away forever. This is the worst possible place to ask, though.
>>24850130You have wasted a significant amount of brain cells engaging in such stupid activities. It’s over.
>>24850130go cry in /adv/ you trolling faggot ass
>>24850208I'm not trolling at all.
>>24850130There have been drug addicts, criminals, inmates, that "wasted" their youth before they decided to write. I like one author that started writing in his 40s. So why can't you?
>>24850327they've had experiences though. I've literally just wageslaved and distracted myself as a surplus male the entire time. I've never even stolen anything.
>>24850337There's external and internal experience. If you have an inner world with ideas and feelings worth expressing, you can write. If not... well, that's on you.
Write what you know
>>24850130Anyone can be a writer. You did some writing just now. Can you be a good writer? That's another thing entirely. There's no upbringing that always produces a good writer, no life experiences that universally transform people into good writers, seemingly no key attributes that all good writers must have. The only way to tell whether you can be a good writer or not is for you to write, and when you've written every word you'll ever set to paper, people can look back on your corpus and decide how good you were.
>>24850130This was me but I got a wagie job to make me talk to people to have material for my writing. The book I'm working on is pretty much a collection of the bizarre social interactions I see every day strung together with a loose plot about messiahs
>>24850130Yes, but you won't be, because you decided to make and lurk in this thread instead of writing something
>>24850130>who spent the last 10 years playing vidya and smoking weedHow does this happen? I'm not saying I'm successful, but I've always had the desire to literally go somewhere I've never been and write or create things, learn something new. IOf I saw years passing with just weed and vidya, i'd start to panic the reaper was right behind me
>>24852183Not OP, but easily. At 31, my instinct is still: why go outside? There's nothing there if you don't know anyone. If you're inept at making friends, or you—god forbid—live in a Nordic country, you can "just go outside" for the rest of your life without anything actually happening, social-wise. Sure, you can pick up solitary hobbies and all, but I'll have you know you can get real depressive being so isolated. This depression makes it very natural to just coast from day to day, escaping the discomfort by easy entertainment and familiar distractions. In place of panic, only the deepening depression of regret.
>>24852242excellent insight anon, I've always been adept at making friends. I've gone on several 1,000 mile bike rides and I was shocked at how often people would come up to me and just offer a place for me to sleep and throw my tent up, food, coffee, take me out to lunch, give me money. Shocking really.
>>24852242I am that nordic dweller. 27 years of age, weed and nothing going on but I have written (1) autobiographical book.
>>24852242I, too, am that nordic. It's not so bad as long as you're close to nature.
>>24850130create a sheltered loser genre
>>24850130Read "a confederacy of dunces" before you kill yourself
Im29 and dedicated half my life to writing and learning how to write a killer story. If you guys need some organic help. I could use the company. It’s my passion. Sure you came to the worst place. But at the write time Tik tok: remohschannel_official
Read Paul Town's books
>>24850130you know how to use periods so you're already better than f.gardner and 90% of /writinggeneral/
>>24850130Just write about playing vidya and smoking weed.
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