Late late extra late bloomer, maybe?

[marydell]

Huffington Post has a slide show of writers who were "late bloomers," i.e. started writing later in life.  Of course I clicked over to it for some encouragement, since my writing tends to be stalled most of the time but I have hopes of publishing something someday.  So it seems that publishing your first book at 37 or 38 makes you a late bloomer.  Oh. Well, I guess I can't actually disagree with that. Apparently I have missed the late-bloomer train already, and I will have to continue to cling to Grandma Moses as a role model.

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[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Julia Glass! (http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/n_8225/)

And of course, Raymond Chandler.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

I adore Chandler so I'm somewhat cheered by his presence, although I don't aspire to his heartbroken drunkenness particularly. And I could still squeak in under the Julia Glass deadline, apparently.

Mainly it makes me blink to realize that I am older than many people who are considered late bloomers. I was also recently startled to discover that I need bifocals. *looks around for ear trumpet*

[sabotabby]

I found that a relief, actually.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

I expected to find it a relief but then I noticed that I'm 43 :). So apparently I'm slacking even by late-bloomer standards.

I'm not all woeful about it, though. When I turned 30 I reset all my non-baby-related goalposts to 40, and when I turned 40 I decided to push everything off til 50. I plan to go on doing that for as many decades as possible!

[unhappytriad.livejournal.com]

There are worse things than starting late: burning out before you're 40 and writing the same damn book over and over again, just to mention two.