Do you consider yourself a writer? I mean really consider yourself a writer? Enough that if people ask you what you do, you would proudly say, “I am a writer.”
Many people would say they would only say that if they write full-time. Why? Does writing consume your thoughts? Does it tug at your heartstrings and cause butterflies to flitter in your stomach every time you put pen to paper, or your fingers to the keyboard? If the passion burns within you to write, then it does not matter how you earn your paycheck- you are a writer.
Some may say, they have not sold any works, or been paid to write, but I beg to differ. If you have felt the joy of reading your words, relived events, or felt taken away as you wrote, never noticing the time fly as you sit absorbed in your thoughts and the wonderful process of creating, then you have been paid. Money is not everything, and we all know it cannot buy happiness. So if you feel a sense of bliss just thinking about being able to write, then say proudly, I am a writer!”
© February 18, 2008 Marie Boyum
