You Can Become a Writer at Any Age

The definition of a writer is simply a person who writes. It doesn’t matter how old you are or how long you’ve been writing. Yes, the more experience you have, the better your writing probably is, but you can be a “good” writer at any age.

Here are the stereotypes I’ve noticed about young writers:

Young writers can’t write well

Young writers don’t know enough to write well

Adults are writers not children or young adults.

That’s a bunch of crap

Really it is. You can be a writer at any age because you can learn at any age. If you can write, you are a writer.

At the time of writing this post I am 20 years old but I began writing when I was nine. I wrote a few short stories. It wasn’t for class, but it was in my own time because I wanted to do it. I wanted to be a writer, not knowing that I already was one.

We should encourage all writers at any age, and not have an already set mind that young aged writers or old age writers works aren’t well.  We should look at our own writing and think ‘hey our writing can be improved too.’

We never stop improving our writing no matter what age we are.

Writers write so age is not the problem. The problem is thinking that young or old people aren’t as capable.

As long as a you are willing to write, learn, grow and create, you should be treated like a professional.

The earlier the better

The earlier writers start their careers off the better.  I mean how cool would it be to have a novel done by the time you finished high school? Or better yet, a collection of short stories.

What does it mean to be a writer anyway?

We practice, we rewrite, we get professional edits, and we rewrite again. Writers are people who enjoy writing and who do the work. This can start at any age, young or old.

But we can’t control how people think.

To grow and evolve we should encourage writers everywhere to write and publish the work they create. We should encourage everyone to start building their platforms now and not later.

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