Comment on 5 Ruts You'd Better Not Fall Into As A Writer by Droemar
I maintain my personal practice of separating the terms "Writer" and "Author".
Anyone can technically become a "writer" - learning the craft, the "wordy thing", which is basically what every native-language class is intended to do in the first place. Essays, articles, short stories, novels; the only difference is the subject and the length.
Being an "author" isn't something you learn - you're born with it, to paraphrase Ye Olde David Eddings. And you tell it by not being able to not write. World-building becomes your oxygen - you do it whether you want to or not, because not doing it is just that many more layers of worse.
In this definition, I consider myself a "writer". For instance, I wholeheartedly enjoy the World of Warcraft setting because it gives me a number of rules to follow and a character creation framework to adhere to, and off I go working in every ounce of continuity commitment and realistic story-engineering that I can possibly produce. In this respect, it could honestly be any kind of existing world with an RP element - WoW stuck with me simply because of personal taste.
Sit me down in front on a blank slate and I seize up.
People have told me in the past that I should become a professional writer - I'm sorry, the term you're actually trying to use is "author" and by Jove, I am not an author. I am horrendously capable of not writing, therefore I am not author material.
But I still enjoy to write, because it's an excellent way for me to explore my self.
Anyone can technically become a "writer" - learning the craft, the "wordy thing", which is basically what every native-language class is intended to do in the first place. Essays, articles, short stories, novels; the only difference is the subject and the length.
Being an "author" isn't something you learn - you're born with it, to paraphrase Ye Olde David Eddings. And you tell it by not being able to not write. World-building becomes your oxygen - you do it whether you want to or not, because not doing it is just that many more layers of worse.
In this definition, I consider myself a "writer". For instance, I wholeheartedly enjoy the World of Warcraft setting because it gives me a number of rules to follow and a character creation framework to adhere to, and off I go working in every ounce of continuity commitment and realistic story-engineering that I can possibly produce. In this respect, it could honestly be any kind of existing world with an RP element - WoW stuck with me simply because of personal taste.
Sit me down in front on a blank slate and I seize up.
People have told me in the past that I should become a professional writer - I'm sorry, the term you're actually trying to use is "author" and by Jove, I am not an author. I am horrendously capable of not writing, therefore I am not author material.
But I still enjoy to write, because it's an excellent way for me to explore my self.