You Will Always Be a Writer

 

Being a writer is funny sometimes. A writer is the kind of person who just sees the world differently. While one person is laughing about a funny situation, the writer decides to use it in their WIP. While one person is raging over something they read in the newspaper, the writer sees it as something they can write about or as an idea for an article to pitch. While one person is enjoying the beauty of a sunset, the writer is describing it in their head.

 

Then there’s the fact that our muse likes to come and go. A writer can go for years, writing nonstop, then the muse suddenly goes on an extended vacation and the writer is not able to get the words onto paper. Or there’s the time that life will get too chaotic or busy, and it’s just not possible for the writer to write as often as they used to.

 

But this will not change anything. The writer will still be a writer even if they can’t write. The writer will ALWAYS be a writer even if they can’t write. Once you flip the “writer switch” on, you really can’t turn it back off.

 

Remember that the next time you start to feel down or “like a fraud” when the subject of writing comes up. Even if you can’t write and even if life is just too crazy or scary to be able to write, you are still a writer. You will ALWAYS be a writer.

 

Being a writer is not about being published.

 

Being a writer is not about writing every single day.

 

Being a writer is not about having an active presence on social media or constantly getting published everywhere.

 

Being a writer is about you having the ability and the passion to write. Even if those things go away, they won’t stay gone forever. Because there will come the day that, after days, weeks, months and years of no writing, you will wake up one morning and start writing again.

 

That writer that you are is within you. It will always be within you. No one and nothing can destroy the writer that you have inside of you. Nothing can take it away.

 

Even if a writer is not actively writing with their hands, they’re still writing with their minds. Their creativity is taking everything they observe, do, hear, say and go through in life and using it as material for things to write later. This happens without the writer even noticing it. That “workshop in the mind” is constantly running, and even if it takes a very long time to hit you with an idea that inspires you to write, it will still have something to inspire you to write with at some point. You just need to wait it out.

 

Meanwhile, just keep doing stuff.

 

Even if you can’t write about what you’re doing, don’t worry. Just do it anyway. Live your life. Get through what you need to get through. Try new things, visit new places and expose yourself to new ideas. You don’t need to write every day to be a writer. You don’t need to be actively writing all of the time in order to be a writer.

 

Once you start on that path of being a writer, you will always be a writer. Even when you’re not writing.