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.
Lock on
>>24850130Sure. But reality is that there is very little interesting to write about these days unless you can discover something happening. I have been looking for 16 years for something interesting happening and I keep finding the same boring stories playing out at different speeds in real life.
>>24852679>>24850130I'm also 32 and have lived a relatively exciting life and keep coming back to the safety of my home as we must all tend our gardens.
>>24850130Yes. Get writing.
>>24850130Sorry, but you'll also have to develop crippling alcoholism before becoming a successful writer.
>>24850130Many writers are the most boring mother fuckers imaginable. Knowing how to tell a story is all about delivery. Not how many lions you've hunted in Africa.
>>2485013032 is prime age for mathematics
>>24852242>absolute state of white "societies"I'm autistic like y'all but I'm African in Africa and the world is always engaging me, forcing me to engage back. Even when you go to a shop or to withdraw or deposit money at mobile money agent they may try to small talk you. Basically, to you "people" on 4chan I'm effectively a Chad as you say, lmao. Proof? I was writing a class magazine in high school and was recognized for my creativity. I had a gf in campus and also worked part time in writing with other Africans. I went to the USA courtesy of my writing work. I was part of a TV show again coz of my writing. I have had jobs. I tried my hand in entrepreneurship unsuccessfully but I managed to go to another country with others for a fellowship, etc. I have done all these as an INTJ autist.I think part of it is your societies. Too individualistic, too detached, too abstract. It's impossible to become the caricature I keep reading on 4chan. Nobody would leave you to play video games for 10 years (myself I stopped at like 14 or 15 that childish stuff), someone will intervene whether be parents, siblings, relatives or friends. I saw some black American kids trash a supermarket. If you do that here the attendants will Woop your arse but in the West they stare or call the police to solve a social issue. Lmao. Yeah you're rich in the kike world but man. I don't envy your world view and your lives.
>>24850130If you have something to say, sure!
>>24850130>trannime posterNo. You have no chance of ever amounting to anything.
>>24850482That sounds fun anon, and nice cat
>>24853477Based
>>24853477I didn't say I liked it. My whole post was a lamentation on the social isolation and strict cultural code that prevents you from breaking free of it that living all the way up here enforces on you. I don't even fit here all that well—there just isn't any good way to express that.
>>24853477man nobody wants this. people laugh about how that's the nordic identity or whatever but every serious post online is about loneliness and alienation and how it's impossible to get human connection, and if you ever get to talk seriously with someone the topic is inevitable. i don't even know that the common people should be considered rich anymore. sure they might have a playstation but they're in debt and not financially secure. it's just shit all around.
>>24850130Try writing one sentence or daily. No pressure, just anything that comes to mind. Can also be personal, just whatever. This is hpw ypu start
>>24852770It's true. The triforce of becoming a writer: Out of control drinking, wanton reading, and weed.
>>24852292Share a sample with us anon. Let us taste your doom and isolation
