I am a writer

I am a writer because…

I am a writer. I have self-published six books and have two more with an agent. These two have Big House names written all over them.

I am a writer. I have received both kudos and criticism. I like the kudos more.

I am a writer. If you don’t enjoy my words, that only means that you don’t enjoy my words. Nobody made you Literary Critic God.

I am a writer. The fact that I earn my living from a day job subtracts nothing from this fact.

I am a writer. My heart goes pitty-pat at the sight of new editions of Writer’s Market and Roget’s Thesaurus.

I am a writer. When my computer goes pffft, or the electricity fails, I resent the loss of my word processor more than I care about the Internet access or television.

I am a writer. I cannot imagine not writing.

AND - I am the last boss I’ll ever have. Of course that doesn’t take into account my agent, my editor, my publisher and the people who read my books, who all think I work for them. Actually, it’s the other way round. In their own way each of them works for me.