I'm online to avoid work - as usual - so I thought I would answer for Dianne. Hey, she's probably somewhere ""Working"".

A while back, I printed business cards for my critique group. I put everyone's title as what they dreamed of being.

Some were poets, some were playwrights, etc. At first I put the title "Writer" on those with no specialty, but I changed it to "Author" because someone pointed out thaht all the members were published and a writer writes while an Author 'has written' and most important 'been published.'

I would say both Dianne and I were published before we considered ourselves writers. Someone else decided I was an author. I write a lot, but I'm still not sure I am a writer. Semantics I suppose.
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