Are you sure you are a writer?
By Adele Aava
As stupid as it might sound, I have been preoccupied for a long time to find the right answer to this: Am I really a writer?
A lot of people write and a lot of them write well, but not anyone who writes is a writer.
There are plenty of sense and nonsense on how to write, how to start a writing career, how to set a writing routine and so on; yet the more you explore, the less useful and practical stuff you find to read and enjoy.
Thanks to such platforms as Medium, many writing fans have been given the chance to develop their own appreciative audience, write and be read for a living, as a side hustle or even as a full-time job. This advantage however, seems to be working as a downside, since plenty of disposable material have wormed their way in, making it more difficult and time consuming for the committed reader to find good quality articles to read.
Seems like everyone is around prattling about how they started their day, fed their pet, or how much easy money the same inconsequential stuff earned them; No wonder Donald Trump wins his way through presidency!
My work experience as a translator though, taught me a lot considering the audience, since it is as much common among those who know a foreign language, to be under the impression that they can…
