When can I call myself a real writer? by Joanne Gilchrist
Hello! I’m Joanne and this is my first blog post for More than Writers. In 2014, I believed God was calling me to write. My youngest daughter started preschool so I saved three precious hours a week to put two book-ideas into words. Later that year, I wrote ‘writer’ on my tax return for the first time but I didn’t yet have any published work to my name, no website or mailing list. How could I be a real writer? I went to the library for books on ‘how to be a writer’ which all told me –‘Don’t waste your time, it’s a dying trade’. I Ignored them and bought myself a copy of ‘Writers and Artists Yearbook 2015’ instead. I didn’t feel like a real writer yet. I wrote it on my tax returns as my job but I never said it out loud. I thought… once I’ve published a book, then I’m a real writer . I was published in 2017. But I still didn’t feel like a writer yet. When I’m a successful writer, then I’ll be a real writer, I thought. But what’s a successful writer? How many books must...