You Might Be a Writer If …

 

By Andrea Merrell

How many of you can raise your hand and say with certainly, “I am a writer”?

How many of you are hesitant to make that statement?

While we have varying ideas about what it means to be successful enough to call ourselves writers, one author says success is not measured by an external achievement but by an internal assurance that we’re doing what God created us to do.

Another author says she felt called to write as a teenager, but it took her thirty years to introduce herself as a writer. Why? Because she didn’t think she had done enough to earn that title.

If you’re having trouble defining your gifts and calling, let’s take a look at some things that might help you over that hurdle.

You might be a writer if …

• You wake up in the morning thinking about writing.
• You go to bed at night thinking about writing.
• You think about writing all during the day.
• You wake up in the middle of the night with a brilliant idea for a blog post.
• You can’t read a book or watch a movie without getting inspired.
• You get excited when bad things happen that can be used as a scene.
• You have conversations with your characters in your head—or out loud.
• You take tragic events and turn them into devotions.
• You look for weird people to put in your story.
• You get angry at someone and plan to kill them in your next novel.
• You write because you can’t not write.

Do you fit into any of these categories? Then you, my friend, are a writer. Don’t ever hesitate to say so.

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