/lit/ - Literature

>>4949494
This is not as pathetic as me:

be 29
started writing third novel (first two not good enough for publication) at age 18-19. still not fucking done, though it's sitting at something like 95% complete - because let's face it, if I finish the damn thing then I have to admit that I'm a terrible hack at writing sci-fi and that I am basically one of those with great ideas locked inside a brain that cannot lucidly or interestingly express them. Pathetic.

I've never published anything for real pay - one short story for $7 when I was 14, a bunch of tripe in school publications.

A handful of rejections on my last two novels and my epic poem.

I should give up on writing, but it's too late now. I t's part of my self image, and I'll probably go on like this until I die. Granted, I have good parts of my life... it's just that my writing hobby is not one of them.