How do I know if I'm a writer or not?>inb4 "If you can write you're a writer"Yeah, no, I mean how do I know if I'm a REAL writer or not?
>>23558501the greatest proof is doing it
>>23558504Check the >inb4
>>23558506You do it and find out. This thread is over.
>>23558511Yeah, but I'm writing right now. Am I a REAL writer?
>>23558501When you don't actually enjoy writing and don't want to do it.>REAL writerArbitrary.
>>23558506>inb4s the only real prooffuck around. find out. do or do not. there is no try. /thread
following the spirit of the post, how cringy is to write in a film-like manner? in first person but you know, as a film
>>23558523You mean a script?
>>23558501Base it on volume of output.And time invested in the writing endeavor.So if you have to ask the question, If your a writer or not, that may be an indication that the volume and time metrics haven't been met.
>>23558531Not a script itself, just a first person book but picture it closer to a Narrator from Fight Club kind of monologues
>>23558536Why do you find that cringy?
>>23558543Just wondering. I've never wrote anything longer than 2 pages and honestly, I'm a procrastinating mess (been with the writing a book idea since last year) so I don't have a "style" altough I know it develops itself while creating. Just wondering, if I make the book I'll post it here anyways. Not like I want my name with the shit my brain is baking.:)
>>23558547Which style are the two pages you've written in?
>>23558511>>23558520>/threading your own post
>>23558501If you get paid, then you're a writer.
>>23558580Marcel Proust never got paid for his writing. Was he not a writer?
>>23558501This is the Folio Society edition of Dracula from a couple if years ago.
>>23558770Wrong, it’s the Folio Society edition of Dracula from DECADES ago. They did reissue it a few years ago though.
what do you want me to tell you, you inb4d the answer
>>23560196The answer for writer, but what about for REAL writer?
>>23560202get published? I'm assuming that's what you mean. Or you're just baiting with semantics.
>>23560205Does self-publishing count?
>>23558501Write about your interrogations about whether or not you're a writer:See this poem by Pessoa for instance:https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23547306#p23547947>I've done nothing; never will – but see>How this nothing’s educated me:>Doing all and nothing is the same;>I’m the ghost of what I’ll never be.>>Under dereliction’s will we creep,>Truth attends us not, nor masters keep;>Life is good, but wine is better still;>Love is good, but better still is sleep.This is how one can accomplish something, writing about not accomplish anything.
>>23560274>Love is good, but better still is sleep.Virgo
>>23558501You’ll never know because you’ll constantly shift the goalpost as to what a “real” writer means. Better question: who cares if I’m a “real” writer?I’m a fake writer, it’s great.
