Call Yourself a Writer

Meg has asked, at what point did you feel confident or deserved to call yourself a writer pre or post being published? And what was the catalyst to using that title in earnest? Okay. So I started calling myself a writer but not an author fairly early on because I started freelancing. Now my day job, well, so I freelanced on the side and I had a day job that was not to do with writing. You read really, really good quality writing. There's no point just reading rubbish stuff widely. Then I would say attending writing and author events, I mean, that's also important. Like I said, I think that the contacts that you make in real life at