Does anybody *really* think that you can just write words and become a writer? Is that even a thing?

I wrote about seven novels before I had one published. Probably close to a million words. Was I just writing to write? I admit I often jumped in without a lot of forethought or structure. I wrote what I saw, followed the muse, and it often added up to alot of wild nonsense.

But I kept going. I learned by doing. That's the old Estonian proverb -- "The work will teach you how to do it."

Today, I have 25 novels published and make a decent living at it.

I can tell someone who is a "real" writer in a heartbeat. Because there's another proverb -- whoever tells you how to write a book doesn't actually know how to write one.

It's truly different for everybody.

Cheers.