What's a "real" writer?
and how do you know if you are one?
What’s the definition of a real writer?
This is perhaps the most elusive concept in the writing life to define. So much agony surrounds the desire to join the real writer club.
In order to determine if they are in or excluded from the real writer club, people make giant lists of what they need to do, be, or have in order to qualify.
Years of hearing these lists have allowed me to collect a sample of these requirements.
According to people I’ve asked,