What Does It Take To Be A Writer?

It is funny as to how quickly the perception of the world around you changes. It has been close to 2.5 years since I took to writing in a big way. Yet, up until a few months back, I was only a poet to some, a thinker to a few others and a philosopher to the majority. I was never really a ‘writer’ in the conventional sense of the word. But all that changed once my first book got published and released in September this year. It continues to baffle me as to how only when your work gets published do people take you, as well as your writing, seriously. Otherwise, you are just a lost soul trying to put words to the feelings you couldn’t actually express with the spoken word, and which people hardly care to read. Because lets be honest, there are too many screwed up things happening in one’s life to spare any time to read what a ‘nobody’ has to say (even your friends and family read it out of sympathy).