Here’s a new poll — I’ll leave this up until Monday, when I’ll post the results.
OK, if you tried this before, it’s the first time I’ve tried this poll software, so I did it wrong. Vote again, please.
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Writer for me–but since I also write nonfiction articles, this may simply be because it’s the easiest word with which to summarize my entire career at once. :-)
(I couldn’t get my actual survey results to show up, by the way–not sure why!)
When I took my first writing class, I called myself a writer and haven’t changed that since … I’ll always be a writer.
Vijaya
ps: I tried to click on the writer button, but nothing happened.
Glad you’re home safe … so you experienced our wet weather, no?
Vijaya
This is what I kick myself about. I write, but have not been officially published yet (any day now). So do I call myself a writer or an author? Definitely not a wordsmith. I guess I usually say writer and will most likely continue with that title even after the book and the article make it to print.
It’s an interesting question, though. Is an author a writer who’s actually published? Hmmmm…