Almighty Alchemist

I don't know who was the first to say that professional writers eat their youth. After that, I always heard people say that professional online writers don't last long, and they eat young. Once you get older, it doesn't work.

It's funny.

I don't know how this argument came out? Could it be that whose previous parents were in the line of Internet writers? Experience left behind?

Or do you take it for granted that Internet writers eat youth food?

Comparing internet writers to an industry like celebrities? Can't do it after 40 years old?

Or do you take it for granted that you will lose your mind when you get older? Can't write a novel?

Today I want to discuss this issue with all my friends who maintain this concept.

I won’t give examples of biological changes. I’m not a doctor, and I don’t understand this. I just want to ask, are all the works in history written by others when they were young? After they passed the age of 50 or 60, have no works come out?

Go to Baidu yourself and you will find the answer. I remember that Lao She wrote Longxugou when he was fifty-three years old, and his last work was Zhenghong Banner. Internet writers are naturally inferior to writers like them. But because of this, I believe that people like them only consume more brainpower when writing, thinking and pondering word by word, and responding with a more serious attitude, unlike most Internet writers who write directly when they have an idea.

In this case, they can continue to write when they enter old age, why can't network writers? Why do you say that Internet writers are youth fans? This is ridiculous.

Thinking about it again, many people work in the workplace until they retire, and they are too old and weak to do things. For online writers, as long as their brains are still awake, their fingers are still flexible, and their eyes are still able to see, they can continue to write.

After the age of sixty, there should not be too few people who meet this standard, right?

In this regard, web writers are actually more durable than most professions.

It is possible to say that as you grow older, your thinking may not conform to the trend of the times, and you will be eliminated when you get older.

But every successful web writer will work hard to research the market. Don't think that old people don't like reading online novels. *** He also reads martial arts novels. In his old man's words: "He writes without thinking, and I read without thinking. I don't get tired after reading."

If someone can read it, someone will naturally be able to write it. Not every writer will not be able to write something that young people like when they get old.

Two years ago, a retired old Red Army published a novel on the Internet. Although it was not a big hit, it attracted many readers. I also went to see it. Although it is not my style, I still support it. The old Red Army may have followed the traditional route because it was the first time it published a novel. But for the generation who have gradually grown old from Internet writers, it may not be difficult to continue the routine of Internet writers in the future.

Failure to keep pace with the times is a personal problem, a problem of mentality, a problem of self-adjustment, not a problem of age.

So I can't see any basis for the saying that people who are engaged in writing are eating youth food, but I don't understand where this saying comes from, and why I can hear it everywhere.

I have heard people say to me more than once: This line of work will not last long.

More than once, I saw someone say on the forum: This industry eats youth food.

The entire industry has just emerged, and countless prophets have emerged.

So, all I can say now is:

The genre of literature can change constantly, but the charm of words is eternal.

Even if a hundred new industries fall, literature will not fall, it will just change its form. As long as you can keep up with the times, the older you are, the more valuable you are.

There is no such thing as a so-called youth meal, and writers don't earn their living by selling their faces.

By the way, I'm not young anymore, but for me, as long as my heart can keep up with the literary entertainment of this era, that's enough.

As for people in their 70s and 80s, they can't write, that's normal. However, such a standard obviously cannot be described as a youth meal, after all, at that age, people can't do anything by themselves. You are too old to type, what else can you do?

Finally, I would like to say: Internet writers are indeed not something everyone can eat, and it is also very difficult to mix. But using the youth industry as a reason to advise others to give up being a professional writer is too absurd.