I take this back. I don't get commissioned to make art. I create art to sell, even if it doesn't sell. I guess you could argue that someone's title is based on their motivation. If a writer is one who writes, then everyone would be a writer, because we all write checks or notes or journal entries. But I think if one writes with the intention to sell/share, that makes them a writer. If one makes art with the intention to sell/share, that makes them an artist. But this thread isn't meant to debate the term. So I ask that you please take the debate to a different thread if you so desire and allow this thread to get back on topic.
Things you're tired of hearing as a writer "You can't write that here, go to another thread." /just kidding!! *ducks* *runs away*
This simply isn't true. As I've already said, apply that logic to everything a person does and you can see how silly it is. Do I declare myself a singer because I sing along to songs? An artist because I doodle? A critic because I moan about how terrible television is? A website designer because I customise blog templates?
Again, please make your own thread in the Debate Room if you want to continue this argument. I'd really like to see this thread get back on topic.
*sigh* And now my attempt to get this thread back to topic: Things I am tired of hearing as a writer/author/typist/human being who scrapes words on a piece of paper. "Why don't you have published yet?" "You have written about a character with a cruel aunt to process some bad childhood memories, right?" "Can you write a fan fiction about *set in here mainstrem TV show/vampire YA novel/weird Harry Potter ship*" "Why don't you have finished your novel yet?" "When will you finish it?" "I bet she is only a writer because she don't know what to do with her life." "Oh you are writing science fiction! Do you like Star Wars?" "Oh you are writing fantasy! I absolutely love stories about vampires too." "Why don't you do something normal?" "Why don't you sell your stories already and make some money?" - certain family member
"How many first drafts have you finished?" Or something my husband said to me today as I was bouncing a new idea off of him.. "No. I don't like that."
It's not a bad idea really and costs nothing. I think it's pretty popular amongst self-published authors as a way to garner interest for their books. Trouble with me is making people aware there's a book to begin with... that, and not deleting those pointless characters I think some authors even allow donating individuals to choose the name of a significant secondary character or even the MC. I could never do that lol.
I find this at once hilarious and horrifying. (hilarious because it's a dumb question, not because you can't walk) Why would you ask someone in a wheelchair, "Can you walk?"
It's just stupid, ignorant people. They probably then go to blind people and ask them how many fingers they (the stupid people) are holding up, or yell in an extremely loud voice because they think it's the ears that don't work. How they managed to survive childhood, I'll never understand. I would've replied to that statement with, “Let's just apply a little logic here, shall we? Let's just think about it for a second. If I could walk, why would I be rolling my ass around in a wheelchair?!”
