New Release: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
The book that came before: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice & Virtue
The book that came before: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice & Virtue
If you write, you’re a writer.
I hate when I hear people say they’re “an aspiring writer.”
Because invariably, they’re wrong. They don’t want to be, they already are.
If you write, you’re a writer.
If you’ve written a book (even just a spotty and fractured first draft), you’re an author.
The only way to be an aspiring writer is to never actually try. If you spend all your time thinking about it without ever putting pen to paper or fingers to keys… then you can say you’re aspiring and be completely truthful.
Aspirations are about not doing something. Once you’ve started doing it, you’re no longer aspiring, you’ve passed that bar!
There are two reasons I think people use this:
1- Most of the times I have heard this (when it wasn’t said directly to me) the statement was made to a traditionally published author, or someone on a convention panel. And I think it became the thing to say in this situation because it sounds better than “I want what you have.”
Maybe people think that sort of statement will come off as somethi…
Because invariably, they’re wrong. They don’t want to be, they already are.
If you write, you’re a writer.
If you’ve written a book (even just a spotty and fractured first draft), you’re an author.
The only way to be an aspiring writer is to never actually try. If you spend all your time thinking about it without ever putting pen to paper or fingers to keys… then you can say you’re aspiring and be completely truthful.
Aspirations are about not doing something. Once you’ve started doing it, you’re no longer aspiring, you’ve passed that bar!
There are two reasons I think people use this:
1- Most of the times I have heard this (when it wasn’t said directly to me) the statement was made to a traditionally published author, or someone on a convention panel. And I think it became the thing to say in this situation because it sounds better than “I want what you have.”
Maybe people think that sort of statement will come off as somethi…
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