This is something I have noticed: the publishing and media world have made a big to-do of young writers lately...esp. if they are photogenic and under 30 y.o. I find this worrisome because so much pressure is brought to bear on these writers...far too much. They write about you as if you are a performing monkey. And what if you don't measure up or don't fulfill your early promise ie Norman Mailer? Time will only tell.
Also, Cervantes published his first novel when he was 38 y.o. And Cervantes was wonderful, wasn't he? Led a life full of intrigues, wars, prison escapes, and basically swash-buckingly adventures. God, how I love him! I suppose real and great experiences that can color the plots of novels are lacking these days. Esp. in the so called young turks' writings. I look at Martin Amis and see him to be a great example of this. What's so important of what he has to say? Not much. He sounds like the great squaking of a yellow silly bird. Hmmm...that wasn't meant as a stupid and ill-wrought joke, ya know. :P
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I find this worrisome because so much pressure is brought to bear on these writers...far too much. They write about you as if you are a performing monkey. And what if you don't measure up or don't fulfill your early promise ie Norman Mailer? Time will only tell.
Also, Cervantes published his first novel when he was 38 y.o.
And Cervantes was wonderful, wasn't he? Led a life full of intrigues, wars, prison escapes, and basically swash-buckingly adventures. God, how I love him!
I suppose real and great experiences that can color the plots of novels are lacking these days. Esp. in the so called young turks' writings. I look at Martin Amis and see him to be a great example of this. What's so important of what he has to say? Not much. He sounds like the great squaking of a yellow silly bird. Hmmm...that wasn't meant as a stupid and ill-wrought joke, ya know. :P