I'm a writer: not an accomplished writer or a prolific writer; I'm not claiming to be a good writer, but I'm not an aspiring writer either. I do aspire to be published one day, but for now I write, so I'm a writer. The moment someone 'becomes a writer' isn't when he's published, or even when he completes his first book. A writer becomes certain he's a writer when the uninspired expectation becomes unexpected inspiration. That's when he knows what he's going to do: what he must do: WRITE