Being a writer is having all of these ideas in your head but unsure how to translate them into consumable content.

Being a writer is consistently wondering if what you’re doing is any good, and even if it is, who will read it?

Being a writer is knowing where you want the story to go but not knowing how to get there.

Being a writer is always being worried about goddamn word counts.

Being a writer is being afraid that you’ll expose yourself too much despite not writing about yourself all the time, because you write about what you know and someday someone is going to ask how you got the inspiration.

Being a writer is having a Bachelor’s of Science and choosing the path of the starving artist instead.

Being a writer is feeling like you’ll never achieve your goals some days and feeling like you’re the baddest bitch in the room other days.

Being a writer is having enough self confidence to call yourself a writer in public.

Being a writer is having to answer the question of “so, what are you doing right now?”

Being a writer is answering with something along the lines of, “writing”.

Being a writer is being an artist.

Being an artist is always being too critical of what you put out into the world.

I am a writer.

I am too critical of myself and my art.

I am too self conscious about the fact that I want to pursue writing as a career.

And I am always doubting myself at every turn.

But, I am a writer.

And that’s all I can ask for.