Are You Too Old to Begin to Write?

Your apprenticeship is already cut in half

Alison Acheson
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readJun 15, 2021

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photo: Glen Hodson for Unsplash

A photograph tells one thousand words. A face, another thousand. An old and beautiful face, as above? Even more.

If you write one page a day, at the end of a year, you will have 365 pages. You might have a book. Or a collection of short stories. Or a stirring number of poems. With one page a day.

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My latest book is a memoir, Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS. My newsletter is on Substack: THE UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS.