If you’ve ever had a identity crisis as a writer, or perhaps lacked confidence in yourself after receiving the latest rejection of your work, here’s the perfect way to start off the new year.
The Official Real Writer Certificate.
Even writers who have sold stories and novels sometimes doubt that they are, in fact, real writers. There hasn’t been some formal notification that arrives in the mail, either from God or the government. So this person created their own validation, and decided to make it publicly available.
I like the one and only requirement: You must first say aloud, “I am a real writer.”
And then away we go. Get this diploma matted, framed and hanging pretty over your desk.
It does make me wonder. At what point do you/would you consider yourself a real writer? What does that term even mean? Anyone can be a writer if they put their mind to it, but when we say this, do we mean someone who has achieved paid publication of a story? A novelist? A repeated novelist?
What is the unspoken goal line in your head that would make/has made you feel like a “real writer”? Or is there one at all?
I see that smile.
Selling my first novel. And actually having it sell. Then I would feel like a real writer.
That seems to be the goal line for a lot of us, though it seems sometimes doubt chases us over the finish line. But don’t let it discourage you from actually reaching that point.