{"id":962,"date":"2016-10-23T20:08:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2016-10-23T20:08:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:08:34","slug":"what-makes-me-a-writer-when-will-i-truly-consider-myself-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"What makes me a writer, when will I truly consider myself a writer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As long as I can remember I have written, although like all things I do it has been on and off and never with conviction. This was until a few years ago when I started to do so more and more. I spend more time planning and making notes than actual writing but still I am getting somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I finally completed the NaNoWriMo challenge to write 50k words in one month. My &#8220;first&#8221; novel 13th Earth &#8211; Before the Dawn was born, many many years in the making. Still I hesitate to say I am a writer, I started this Blog and although I am not always consistent I am writing. Still I hesitate to call myself a writer.<\/p>\n<p>You see, for me I know I am a writer, you could say &#8220;I write, therefore I am&#8221; or something as cliche as that. But I will never truly consider myself a writer until I have something published, it could be anything, magazine, website or the end goal, a book. But once a company or organisation has printed something of mine so it isn&#8217;t &#8220;self&#8221; publishing, like this blog. I will not fully consider myself a writer.<\/p>\n<p>So I will keep writing, with the hope that I churn out a polished gem ready for publication&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this years NaNo, Dragon Lords &#8211; The Return is the name of the project I am planning for. A fantasy tale which isn&#8217;t part of the main Sci-Fi universe, or at least not obviously, the idea of the universe I have started building is that everything site in ther somewhere, and there is a link between this and that universe, but it may not figure in the end product, but I know it is there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as I can remember I have written, although like all things I do it has been on and off and never with conviction. This was until a few years ago when I started to do so more and more. I spend more time planning and making notes than actual writing but still I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}