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[deep_time]

One fictional character I relate to is Master Billy Quizboy, (Adult) Boy Genius, from The Venture Bros.

When I was a teen, I thought myself a wunderkind. I believed my novels and stories were excellent (they weren't; with a determined editor I might have climbed up to the level of, say, John Ringo or Christopher Paolini, but only at the expense of

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[veijukka]

I don't think you should give up on publishing. I relate to what you say about giving up on being the wunderkind (every time I think of Mary Shelley I feel a little nauseous...I'm nearly twice the age at which she wrote Frankenstein), but if you look at it, there were plenty of writers who don't really until they are older, in some cases, much older

[deep_time]

Publishing is never gone entirely from my ambitions, but it becomes a vaguer concept with each passing year. I wouldn't mind putting some of my (still hypothetical) work out there as self-published ebooks, but I definitely want to shop novels around. I want an editor to like something I wrote, and I want to hold a professionally printed copy in my hands, as I said before.

Thank you for your compliments (though, of course, I can't see it -- I find my style stagnant and limiting, my vocabulary far from graceful). I too have troubles separating day to day crap from whatever headspace I need to write from. Right now I don't even have a laptop, and I don't enjoy sitting in front of the PC for more than a few minutes. Next year, I hope, I might be able to afford another laptop, and this time there's no debate -- I gotta start writing on the thing.