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There are many— readers of this newsletter included, I am sure— that do not consider themselves writers, despite spending a substantial amount of time writing every week. They maintain that they’re not writers because they aren’t good enough to be called writers, or because they’re unpublished, or because their published pieces haven’t reached the levels of acclaim/recognition/income generation that would make their status official.
On the other side, there are those who call themselves writers and engage in none of the actions a writer must take. Maybe they did so in the past, and they point to their published work as proof of status. Maybe they never have, but they think the aspiration is the same as the identity.
In all truth, a writer is someone who writes. It doesn’t matter what they write, or what they do with their work. A person that writes, regularly and with focus, is a writer. Anyone who does not do these things is not a writer, regardless of what they might have published in the past.
Some people write consistently because they want to write, consistently. They have a daily urge to sit down and write, and the constitution to do it whenever the urge comes up.
The rest of us struggle. The rest of us, of course, including Mark Twain, Stephen King, Victor Hugo, Anthony Trollop and many more- all writers that documented their struggle with the consistent production of the written word.
Winning the struggle to sit down and do writing is what makes the writer. Everything else, all the results or rewards, are the effect, while doing the writing is the cause. The single best thing that anyone can do to improve their writing is to write consistently, doggedly, whether the muse has shown up or not. And anyone who does that is a writer.
The Dare
This week, be a writer. Write something every day. Fill up a post-it. Add a sentence to an outline. Write one shitty paragraph. Something. And take a moment, every day, to recognize that you are a writer because you are writing, and that’s all it takes.
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