User blog comment:Magical Toddler/Alright, Gonna Be Quite Honest/@comment-27905100-20170825041304

Goddamnit, I hate the "I'm Twelve" excuse. It's just utter fucking bullshit that anyone can see right through. I'd expect an 8-year-old to write better than some of those stories, and yet... fuck. If you're going to use your age as an excuse you had better be a baby because you sure as hell are acting like one. Like, it's almost as if these people can't see how many great authors there are out there that are just as young as them.

(Note: I don't consider myself a great author, just one barely mediocre enough to beat the QS). To all the twelve-year-olds who use their age as an excuse, guess what. There are great authors out there who are your age, maybe younger. I was 13 when I posted my first story here. It got deleted. But, you know what, instead of whining, I decided to practice. I posted more stories. They were all shit. They all got deleted. I practiced and got better. I worked hard until, finally, I had one story get up. It's still here (through some stroke of luck). When I was 14, I found out it was narrated. I also took part in the wiki's Collab, and wrote 5 other stories. I'm 15 now and have the longest story I've ever done in the works, and goddamnit, if I can do it, kids like that can do it too, provided they don't whine about it.

Just... fuck these kids. If you want to write, acknowledge that you suck and work to get better, or else you might turn out to be one of those shitty wattpad high school grimdark fanfic writers whose plot sucks and has even worse writing. Or worse yet, you could turn out to be Michael Nemeth #2.

/rant

(By the way, this isn't meant to discourage anyone from writing. Except people who say "I'm Twelve!" and expect a free pass. Fuck that crowd.)