The moment I finally called myself a writer

When I started writing, I had all sorts of anxiety. Who was I, pretending to be a writer? How could I possibly call myself one when I hadn’t even written a real book, when I hadn’t been published or paid for my work? As I began to pursue my craft, I learned something important. (In fact, I’m still learning it, and if the pros I’m learning from are

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So I started saying I was a writer. I put it on my Facebook page. Included it in email signatures. Everywhere I could, I wrote the word “writer” beside my name. It was kind of ridiculous, but something crazy happened as a result of this campaign. It actually worked. As I started making these public proclamations of identity, I started believing the

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