Being a writer is easy. You sit down in front of your computer and pound away to put the letters together to make words, you put the words together to make sentences and the sentences together to hopefully convey a coherent thought.
I am already a writer.
But I am not an Author. Being an Author is much harder than being a writer. Being an Author means writing in a way that other people like it so much, they want to pay to read to it. I have no doubt that I am in for a goodly number of rejections, a healthy dose of skepticism and sackful of "I told you so" from one corner of the universe or another.
But the cool thing about being an Author? You have to be a writer first and it doesn't matter how many rejections I get, how much skepticism is sent my way or how many people tell me "I told you so", they can't stop me from writing.
So I will keep doing that. And hope that by suffering through the hardships, I come out ready to be an Author instead of just a writer.
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