How Do You Know if You Are a "Real" Writer?
…It doesn’t matter if you are published or not, have won awards or not.  It doesn’t matter what you write or how often you write.  It doesn’t matter.  A writer wants it to work!  If it doesn’t work, a writer is willing to produce it, to listen to criticism, to cut, to add, to change, to ask questions, to learn, to rewrite, to stand his/her ground, to start over, to rewrite again—whatever it takes to make it work.