Quote: David Chapman @ November 22 2008, 2:12 PM GMTPeople say to me "well everyone writes". And then you explain and say that you haven't really had a lot of success yet - and you start to wonder why you mentioned it in the first place.
I dunno - I don't think it's wise for people to say they're writers unless they've had stuff published in some form. My mate reckons his girlfriend's a "writer", when in fact she's a lazy dole bum who has started about 14 novels and abandoned each one after about the fifth chapter.
It's like someone asking me what I do and replying that I'm a musician. I AM a musician but I don't get paid for it, so I can't really lay claim that that's "what I do".