Author "starting age" - Page 4

ApK · 01-09-2014, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Katsunami

It could be that Battle Chess influenced Rowling;

Chess itself is combat on a board. Human chess has been around for ever. I watched them play it, with the combat, at ren faires when I was a kid.

As someone said above, it's not the idea that's new, it's how it's spun.

And in any case, I'll remind everyone that Chewbacca and C-3PO played Wizard's Chess/Battle Chess before any of these late-comers.

Anna Drake · 01-10-2014, 08:35 AM

As Gilbert and Sullivan put it: "I believe I am sufficiently decayed."

Katsunami · 01-10-2014, 08:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anna Drake

As Gilbert and Sullivan put it: "I believe I am sufficiently decayed."

I don't feel like that just yet. Maybe in another 75 years

Lemurion · 01-13-2014, 12:05 AM

I always wanted to write, it just took me a very long time to finish my first novel. I started it around 1990, finished the first draft in 2003, and published it in 2013. To put a timeline on it, I dabbled in fiction for most of my life, and finished the first draft of my first novel about a week before I turned 40. I also did a little freelancing from about 35. At 44 I got seriously into freelancing and have been doing it since then.

In the meantime I've done an awful lot of paid non-fiction type writing, and ghostwritten a couple of novelizations, the first published in 2008 and the sequel in 2009. I've done a whole bunch of other work, too, ranging from a forex trading course to editing SF and fantasy.

Now, at 50, I'm doing more publishing and working on getting my name out there.

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01-10-2014, 08:35 AM	#47
Anna Drake Zealot Posts: 104 Karma: 2175016 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: rural Illinois, USA Device: Kindle	As Gilbert and Sullivan put it: "I believe I am sufficiently decayed."

01-13-2014, 12:05 AM	#49
Lemurion eReader Posts: 2,750 Karma: 4968470 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: Note 5; PW3; Nook HD+; ChuWi Hi12; iPad	I always wanted to write, it just took me a very long time to finish my first novel. I started it around 1990, finished the first draft in 2003, and published it in 2013. To put a timeline on it, I dabbled in fiction for most of my life, and finished the first draft of my first novel about a week before I turned 40. I also did a little freelancing from about 35. At 44 I got seriously into freelancing and have been doing it since then. In the meantime I've done an awful lot of paid non-fiction type writing, and ghostwritten a couple of novelizations, the first published in 2008 and the sequel in 2009. I've done a whole bunch of other work, too, ranging from a forex trading course to editing SF and fantasy. Now, at 50, I'm doing more publishing and working on getting my name out there.

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