I am a writer

 I am a writer

By Freya Anastasia Hatfield

I am a writer, this is what I say when people ask me what I do,

they then say ow you're an author,

I want to correct them but often find myself saying one day I hope to be an author,

they then reel off names of famous authors and say you want to be like them?

I say yes.

It's easier than saying no and having to explain how painful that statement is.

So today I say I am a writer,

not an author,

I write books,

short stories,

poem, and lyrics,

I am a writer, who has no boundaries, no specific style,

I write what I feel needs to be written,

if it turns out to be long enough to be a book that’s what it will be,

if it becomes a short story, poem, lyrics that’s what it will be,

or equally a blog post.

I am a writer,

Not an author,

Not a poet,

Not a lyricist

I am a writer.

There may be no difference for some to what each of those  are,

for me there is,

to me, they say this is what you are so this is what you can only be,

don't step outside of those boundary lines,

stick in your own path don't divert from what you are doing.

I am a writer first,

I am not published,

I do not have an agent,

but I am a writer.

I suppose you could then say I am of sorts an author,

a poet,

a lyricist

but neither one of those defines me more than being a writer,

for me, that embodies all forms of writing

not just one form

so for that

I am a writer.