If you followed the link from the Insecure Writer’s Group blog post to get here, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of me. And you haven’t read any of the eight books I’ve published so far. But that doesn’t make me any less of a working writer.
I’m not making a living off my writing. Heck, I’m lucky if I break even when it comes to the end of the year. The number of people following me on any of the social media is low. But none of that diminishes the fact that I sit down at my computer on a regular basis and work to put words on paper.
And that’s what it takes for me to consider myself a working writer. I’m trying. Well, I’m more than trying. I’m doing. I wrote four books before I wrote one I considered good enough to publish. And I didn’t feel any less of a writer while I was writing them.
Maybe you don’t write books. Maybe you write short stories or poems or blog posts. You’re still a writer. A working writer.
Not all of us will ever be traditionally published. Some of us don’t want to be. And that’s okay. That’s no longer the definition of a writer. The world is a lot bigger now. (And, at the same time, a lot smaller.)
So, I go back to my previous statement. Are you putting words on paper? (Or the computer equivalent?) Congratulations. You’re a working writer.
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Nicely stated. 🙂
Anna from elements of emaginette
Thank you!
Thank you for a positive definition of ‘working writer’! I especially appreciated your comment that not all writers want to be traditionally published — and that the publishing (and marketing) elements are changing for us all. For me, the writing is an anchor, especially during these troubling times. 2020 has brought another level of stress to those normal ups and downs we all face. So, be well and keep writing!
I like that!
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