Comments on: When do you become a writer?

By: Xean Puccio

Xean Puccio — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:45:24 +0000

One isn’t a writer simply because they send holiday cards every year to their friends and relatives although I’ll admit, some of those people do write very well. When we seek to do it to create works in writing fields; that’s when I believe the writer title is applicable. Incidentally Sanjev, isn’t that the Narayan who translated the Ramayana? It was one of the books my father used to read it to me as a child.

By: Sanjev Khanna

Sanjev Khanna — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:54:33 +0000

I believe am a writer still in making.

I know a better/cameo answer to the question. The Great Indian Writer R K Narayan wrote in his autobiography My Days, “the moment you start writing you become a writer.”

By: Louisiana Rose

Louisiana Rose — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:31:19 +0000

I am a writer, it is the be all and end all of my life, it is my raison d’etre, it is the innermost workings of my soul, almost everything I write comes from personal experience of one kind or another.
I may never become a published writer although I have certainly posted almost everything I have ever written on forums that I am a member of, but that is of no matter to me, I could no more stop writing, than stop breathing, my work writes itself, my hands are simply the medium by which it is able to put the words on the computer.
If I never published any of my work it would not make me any less a writer

By: mhpierre

mhpierre — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:52:59 +0000

I agree that we are all writers in the sense that we create our own world but we need to put things down on paper…

Write if it makes you feel good and call yourself a writer if you want to. There’s nothing wrong with that.

By: roseybo

roseybo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:19:13 +0000

We are all writers! Writers of our own fate and fortune in many ways. But chosing to share this process by crystallising our thoughts and feelings – however, or for whomever we translate them – is but one way in which we chose to have a hand in it.

If you feel that you’re a writer, then it is written.

By: sarhad12

sarhad12 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:14:32 +0000

I started writing lately and the good thing is from being novice I’m at the level where I can show people my work, all I need is an agent or someone to take my work forward as Im not really expert in this field.

I believe in my self and the confidence is very hight I think that one day there will be film made on the story I write…….. thats how confident I’am if anyone intrested in looking at someof my work just letme now….

By: Ramsgatered

Ramsgatered — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:02:20 +0000

I suspect the truth is you are generally considered a writer when you earn money for the work. I don’t approve of this but this is how most people rate any creative endeavour (same with painters/musicians etc.). I didn’t call myself a writer until I started doing journalism/commercial writing – but then I had to calm down everyone’s expectations and say “No – just financial stuff.” Nevertheless, it gave me additional confidence – much needed!

By: Tom Colohue

Tom Colohue — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:55:31 +0000

I have firmly believed in the writer title since my first paid professional publication over a year ago now. Admittedly; I haven’t actually advanced too far since then, but I like to think that I’m reputation building in the mean time.

I’ll follow this I think.

By: Esther Sabedra

Esther Sabedra — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:08:19 +0000

I’ve been fascinated with the art of writing ever since my early chilhood years….& now 40 plus years later I am still going strong. I’ve always been a writer. It’s my connection to my source. It’s a sacred place within my being in which I cherish most deeply. I use this lifegiving gift to extract lots of different & beautiful ways with words to express what my spirit wishes to communicate to me, & eventually reaches the mind & spirit of a reader.

By: tangellion

tangellion — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:35:33 +0000

If someone asked me what I do and I felt like being pedantic (as I often do) I would say I sleep a lot, watch tv, go to work, walk the dog, write a bit and numerous other activities, what do you do? At which point they would say I was only asking. What they should have asked is ‘what do you do for a living?” The answer is then more obvious because it narrows down the options to the one which provides you with an income sufficient to meet you everyday needs. Nuff said?