Thread:Shade234/@comment-397235-20140822015757

No worries. I've never had my fiction published; I got put in a local newspaper a couple years ago; my name wasn't even attached to the piece so I can't really prove I wrote it, but...

A friend of mine self-published a novel on Amazon a few months ago for Kindle (no paper means it's much cheaper; for beginning writers print on demand or electronic seems to be the way to go). There are also a lot of places you pay up front to get your book published (don't; there's very little quality control and they have terrible to nonexistent editors).

Also, why wait? Christopher Paolini published Eragon when he was fifteen. Not perhaps a wonderful example, but there it is. Ray Bradbury supported himself on his writing before he was thirty. The sooner, the better.

Also, I used to edit professionally (which makes being an Admin here a lot easier, let me tell you). If you'd like I'd be more than happy to read some of your writing and tell you what I think. Your call. 