Am I A Writer?

I’ve never considered myself as one. Though, officially I’ve been a copywriter for 6 months already, yet it’s still hard for me to believe that I’m actually one. Funny isn’t it? The reason is, I believe, is that for most of my working life, writing was never the MAIN thing that I do. It was just part of it.

I think I just got lucky I know how to string english words together correctly, and that I happen to know a couple of hifalutin words, that my former boss asked me to write a brief news article of an event that we were part of. Short of making me do a task beyond my job description and for lack of manpower, I was in no position to argue, disagree, or decline. Lest I see myself out of a job the next day. So I did what I could and have never stopped writing professionally since then.

However, I consider myself a newbie in this field. Writing notebook after notebook of journal does not make one a writer. Being with real writers all day makes me realize that I have so much to learn about writing good copies.

And speaking of learning about being a true writer, I just recently found out about MOLESKINE. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. How could I? How could I not know of Moleskine? The most revered notebook in the writing and traveling world. With pages that make your scrawny hadwriting look reeeaally good and spines that make it possible for pages to lie flat whatever page you’re writing on, how could I have not heard of this gem before? Ah…I dunno. Perhaps it’s because I’ve never been around writers much before now? Ahm, maybe it’s because no one I know has heard of it either. Well, whatever, now I know all about it I am getting one.

I’m seriously thinking of furthering my career in the writing world and my current job makes it all possible. Of course, I’m still a techie at heart and I still want to learn stuff about web designing, photoshop, digital scrapbooking, and maybe programming. For now, I’m going to write to my heart’s content.