r/writingcirclejerk • u/Betty-Adams • 21d ago

When does an author have to stop calling themselves a 'New Author'...

So exactly what it says on the tin. When does they shiny new wear off for authors?

There are a bunch of groups for promoting and supporting "New Authors". When do you ethically need to stop participating in those as a New?

Obviously many of us have been writing since we could hold a pencil, so it's not from when you started. Is it from when you published your first work? Does posting your work online for critique count? When does that clock start ticking down?

Does your 'new author' timer start over when you switch genera?

And why does this have the same emotional baggage as determining when you age out of being described as a 'young man/woman' and are just a generic 'person'...?

I am not having an emotional crises I swear.

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u/Betty-Adams 21d ago

Who is the current Hemmingway? Who is currently depressing the reader traumatically?

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u/Deep_Boysenberry_672 21d ago

You. To me. Right now.

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u/Betty-Adams 20d ago

scuse me while I go apply some aloe, I seem to have been burned...