Unlike Cheever (at least so far) there is no necessity forcing me to write, it is something I simply slipped into, a little short story here, a poem there and before I knew it I was considering a creative writing course at university.
Still my writings meandered a lot, it is hard to say when you have become a writer, are you a writer when you are simply writing the openings to stories, which are immediately forgotten like a magpie in a jewellery shop? Or is it when you have realised that you are by definition a writer and you feel the inherent purpose that comes with it?
For example Margaret Atwood stated that; ‘most people secretly believe they themselves have a book in them, which they would write if they could only find the time.’ I prescribe to the first part of the statement, I am a writer because I have realised this is so and with due willpower have made the time, for I have stories within me and I fully intend to make them see the light of day.
Thus I would say I became a writer simply through the enjoyment of writing, yet I define myself as a writer because I have given my writing purpose beyond the simple pleasure derived from it. That is the want to be published, because being able to share my work with an audience brings me greater pleasure still.
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