What's your writing age?
Be patient. Remember your writing age.
Whatever your actual age. You also have a writing age. This is true of anything you want to master. You need practice to improve. Compare a martial artist in their first year to someone with 20 years experience. Or a painter, a business executive, a yoga practitioner. Regardless of the profession or hobby, someone in year 20 will be better than someone in year one.
If it's a job, they will also be paid more because of their expertise. The same is true with writing. No one exits the womb and knows how to write a novel, you have to learn. Don't compare yourself to someone whose writing age is greater than yours. I love many of Stephen King's books, and it's daunting to compare my writing to his masterpieces, but he's almost 30 years older than me and he started writing in his teens. At the time of writing this, King's fiction writing Age is around 60, whereas my fiction writing age is 11.
How can I compare myself to somebody who has had that much practice? It's like someone who's done a couple of violin lessons comparing themselves to the greatest violin player at Carnegie Hall. So be patient and keep writing, keep reading, keep practicing. After all, you are a writer. What else would you rather be doing?
Excerpt from How to Write a Novel, narrated by me!
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