Comments on: Are you scared to call yourself a writer?

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:33:05 +0000

In reply to Danielle Navonne. You know I think that just about sums up most people's fear!Sent from my iPod

By: Danielle Navonne

Danielle Navonne — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:18:36 +0000

Sometimes I still hesitate saying "I'm a writer" because I feel like people are going to follow-up by asking me about all the publishing credits that I don't have yet. Lol. But, I always think of the scene in Sister Act 2, when Whoopi Goldberg quoted Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to A Young Poet:
"Don't ask me about being a writer. If when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing, then you're a writer." I try to remember that!

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:03:52 +0000

This is a hard question for me to answer considering I am a poet just exploring your site. But I have a hard time declaring myself a poet, because I make no living off of it, and I am just a 15 year old guy. Never the less I call myself a poet, and I call myself that because it has taken over my life. If it makes sense at all everything comes out in my poems. It is how I express my emotions and how I deal with problems. This is how I think writing anything from books to articles must feel like. That is when I would call myself a writer, even if I don't make a dime off of it, because I firmly believe in what someone told me once "Writing brings self benefit and if you don't seek that benefit. Then you will fail."

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:14:01 +0000

Debbie, I think its the same for a lot of people, including the person I was having this conversation with. Claim it and its yours!

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:31:55 +0000

the first time I said I was a writer was on those silly forms they make you fill out while flying. I couldn't bear to write down housewife and I was no longer a teacher. It made me smile.
I now call myself an educator, and will do so until I start selling a novel or articles.
Meanwhile, I am asked to sign my name to the new series of children's books I just wrote and I am petrified that someone will catch me out. See that it's a title that I just claimed….