I am an author.
I realized a year or two ago the fact that I am a writer.
All you really have to do to be a writer is to have written or is engaged in writing- maybe not even fancy schmancy novels. Merriam-Webster says, for one of its sub-definitions, a "person who commits his or her thoughts, ideas, etc. to writing" is a writer.
If you process the world linguistically- if you order your thoughts a lot of the time by writing down your internal monolog and elaborating on it, or you write a lot, or heck even if you don't always write as much as you should but love to write, you are a writer.
If you feel like your world view has been altered by writing- you angle your thoughts that you can put them down on paper best or note down details of science or history class to use- you are a writer.
And if you are a writer, you are also an author. Cuz guys, an author is just a fancy word for a writer. You don't have to be published, you don't have to write much (though I really do encourage writing loads, it's that kind of thing that makes your writing better), you don't have to even write well.
*gel pen drop*
All you really have to do to be a writer is to have written or is engaged in writing- maybe not even fancy schmancy novels. Merriam-Webster says, for one of its sub-definitions, a "person who commits his or her thoughts, ideas, etc. to writing" is a writer.
If you process the world linguistically- if you order your thoughts a lot of the time by writing down your internal monolog and elaborating on it, or you write a lot, or heck even if you don't always write as much as you should but love to write, you are a writer.
If you feel like your world view has been altered by writing- you angle your thoughts that you can put them down on paper best or note down details of science or history class to use- you are a writer.
And if you are a writer, you are also an author. Cuz guys, an author is just a fancy word for a writer. You don't have to be published, you don't have to write much (though I really do encourage writing loads, it's that kind of thing that makes your writing better), you don't have to even write well.
*gel pen drop*
*plaudits*
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