Here's one that has bothered me for a long time... I am writing (as I always am) a children's fantasy novel that I hope to submit to an agent this year. It's a fairly dark, spooky story in a magical setting, starring an ordinary girl. I only have one problem with it...
I'm only 21.
Is that enough life experience to be writing anything? Can a person's style be sufficiently mature by that age? Will an agent look at the DOB and dismiss the submission? I'd appreciate some thoughts on this!
'Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.'
Mark Twain
Thanks very much for the feedback ladies and gents.
I can't see that your relatively tender years would be a problem. After all, a younger writer could potentially have a extremely long writing career in front of them. The only time I've seen things mentioning a writer being young, it's been used as a positive thing, not a negative. Don't wait for some mythical age when you are "mature" enough - as you get older, maturity is a highly overrated thing, anyway!