Even "if your writing fails to make you a writer, it may still enable a writer to make you a popular fictional character." This is a warning.https://www.precursorpoets.com/surveillance-fiction/ …
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thoughts?
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I think it is those who aspire (success irrelevant) to have it be their predominant source of income, perhaps?
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yea personally I agree, if you write you're a writer
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if people feel like they haven't written much so they can't call themselves a writer (I get DMs about this sort of thing), I usually say "write 100 pages of shitty drafts" – doesn't have to be part of anything. the volume alone, if you were half-conscious, will baptize you
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There exists a trivial identity "writer," which is entirely descriptive (One who has written some prose). I count as a writer under that identity. But I suspect there is a deeper identity that is defined by ones orientation toward writing and membership in a culture of writers.
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I do not have any particular orientation toward writing (though I enjoyed it before I got sick), and am not a member of any culture of writers, so I have no particular knowledge of that space.
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agreed in general, I think ignoring the post is silly though. I pulled that sentence out of context as a teaser
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oh, poor phrasing on my part! "the post was good, I read the whole thing; now, on a different topic just branching from the quoted words..."
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In context, "writing" being more social media dumps than the intended literary writing, re: heavily online, over-sharing alt-lit world. E.g., the Megan Boyle live-blog to Liveblog: A Novel pipeline as underlying fantasy of other social media use. But you're also right.
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