What Am I and What Font Should That Be In?
Ever since I got a whiff of Sophie Littlefield's Tiffany themed embossed business cards from Crane, I've dreamed of my own. I justify them for a writing career with no revenue by telling myself that startups operate in the red all the time.
The question is: what would my profession be?
Author - Writer - Storyteller
What's the difference and does it matter?
On Wednesday, Nathan Bransford's blog posed the question "When does one become a writer?".
Opinions were varied, discussion was heated, and dictionary.com was of no help. Majority consensus was that committing pen to paper makes you a writer, but calling yourself an author requires publication or at least a final product.
Further complicating matters is Stephen King who in a recent interview said, "Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn." He seemed to concede that that her storytelling is on target. Is it safer to call myself a storyteller if my writing skills haven't been vetted?
Does one term garner more respect over the other or infer a level of professional success? The simplest solution seems to be sticking with name, email and web address.
What do other writer/author/storytellers have on their business cards?
Labels: FAQ
posted by Martha Flynn @ 9:18 PM
4 Comments:
I probably shouldn't get too much into the Stephen King comments. I usually adore him, but I don't think we in the writing community should talk about each other that way. Didn't your Momma teach you better than...I mean, Professional courtesy and all that...
As for you, my dear, you are what ever you think you are. So here's a dare for you. Why don't you spend a day thinking of yourself as each of these things and see if it changes how you work.
i dont know much about job titles, but i can recommend a great font expert-- cadenza! she's the paper expert too, so if you need advice on italian fabriano paper, she's your gal!
When does one become a writer.
I've been trying to answer this question for as long as I decided to move writing out of the "hobby" category and into the "want this to be my career" category.
I don't know. I don't know at all. I've had four stories published with a fifth one in the wings. Does that make a writer? I surely do not earn a living from writing. So now am I not a writer?
I can't even begin to answer this question. I think it starts somewhere along the lines of what you have inside of you. But where it goes from there is anyone's guess.
May I suggest adding Wordsmith to your collection of titles. I am not really sure if that is one or two words. I do know it is not Will Smith. Thank you.
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