writing mysteries for fun and profit
Blog of Christian mystery writer Darrell Case
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Is it too late?
Is
it too late?
We have a tenancy to believe when a person reaches a
certain age they are useless. They are no longer productive. Consequently in
their field of expertise they should retire and let a younger person take their
place.
Yet in the field of creativity,
many have not reached their peak until older age. A good example is Frank McCourt, who passed in 2009.
Frank didn’t publish his first book until he was 66 years old. After Angela’s Ashes, he went on to win the Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle Award, and L.A. Times
Book Award. “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind
is a palace.”
Can we imagine a world without Little
House on the Prairie Yet Laura Ingalls Wilder was 64 when she put pen to paper. The
result was Little House In The Big Woods. Her books are still in print
and among some of best sellers in children’s books and been translated into forty languages. “The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be
honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple
pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
Bram Stoker was 50 years old
when he wrote Dracula.
He went on to write seven more novels before his death at age of 64.
Mary Wesley didn’t
publish her first novel until she was in her seventies. By the time of her
death at 90 her books sells were in the millions.
“Looking
back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write”.