I know that feeling -- it's why I quit freeform RP in high school. But I regret that. On a higher level/broader scale, I think more creative outlets provides ferment, not dissipation. Quitting RP didn't help me write more, it just made me not RP.
If it helps, there are plenty of published authors who didn't get published -- even in terms of short fiction -- until they were in their late thirties, their forties, maybe later. Ann Leckie and Susanna Clarke come to mind off the top of my head. I remember there was a bit of a go-round on author Twitter recently kind of sighing over the way that media tends to megaphone the stories about young prodigies, the "30 under 30s", etc., which they opined didn't really reflect their publishing experiences.
& FWIW, I know in college I had barely any headspace to read novels at all, but I was able to read a lot more after graduating. It's not necessarily set-in-stone inevitability that your post-college life will have less room for creative hobbies/callings!
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Date: 2018-12-11 02:55 pm (UTC)If it helps, there are plenty of published authors who didn't get published -- even in terms of short fiction -- until they were in their late thirties, their forties, maybe later. Ann Leckie and Susanna Clarke come to mind off the top of my head. I remember there was a bit of a go-round on author Twitter recently kind of sighing over the way that media tends to megaphone the stories about young prodigies, the "30 under 30s", etc., which they opined didn't really reflect their publishing experiences.
& FWIW, I know in college I had barely any headspace to read novels at all, but I was able to read a lot more after graduating. It's not necessarily set-in-stone inevitability that your post-college life will have less room for creative hobbies/callings!