I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm extremely slow. About one word a week is my usual rate of progress. I'll finish my masterpiece in about 4100 AD. I'll be dead then, but so will everyone else, so I'll have to self-publish from the grave. Damn human-caused climate change!
Stuck between amateur hopeful and hobbyist. If I were ever blessed with some sort of fortune; not even a large fortune, just enough to hold me for a few years, I would quit my job and pursue it full time.
I went for Professional Writer with the same caveats as @Tenderiser. My day job is a mix of writing and managing writers, but for marketing, not fiction. Despite what some people think, they're not quite the same thing.
Professional writer. Mostly fiction, but I do a lot of true crime stuff too. I also write for a bunch of sex websites.
I suppose I could fit into ameteur hopeful because I don't see any other option where I fit most accurately. I could definitely learn so much more about writing and I can study more than I can teach so I guess it's not a bad fit. This year I am now a published author in several literary journals whereas last year I was only able to say "I am a writer who hopes to be published." Now I say "I am an author who hopes to have a novel traditionally published someday." It's funny how we just want more and more.
No, but if you hum a few bars... Actually, I went with amateur hopeful. I don't really expect to ever get published. But you never know
That is not an easy answer for me. Most of the writing I do is for business. I have the skills to convince customers I am a great and honest guy, that can be trusted with your, wife, virgin daughter and your wallet. With that skill I have made a lot of money. As a writer who has done local stories for the paper, payment would involve getting fries with my Big Mac. I doubt I have ever made more than a dollar to two and hour. That can't be listed as professional, because the guy pan handling outside of McDonalds told me he averages about 25 bucks and hour bumming money from college kids, now that is a story worth sharing :}
There was no option for "Former Professional!" I am aghast. ...Not really, but I am practicing my false aghastness.
I'm a writer who's picking the hobby back up after about 6 years of not writing anything except mediocre contributions to the SCP Foundation. I have some decent experience writing short stories, but I'm probably rusty as heck. I'm mainly into sketching and digital art now, so this forum will be a great way to create things when I don't have the motivation to draw.
I chose professional adjacent. I started a magazine so I could write what I wanted to write. It pays the bills (just) and I write anywhere from 40-60% of the content each month, so not sure how that fits into the poll parameters. But I joined this forum because I'm now also working on a fiction novel - at which I'm very much an amateur.
Hobbyist and English student. I write for a blog and some other personal projects, but I'm focused on computer programming and possible game design as a career. Most of my current writing is autobiographical or about video games, in addition to the essays I have to write for college. I'd like to write a novel some day, but I'm not skilled enough yet, and I think it'll be easier if I get other life experiences first. As it stands, I have difficulty writing about many common events, because I haven't been an adult long enough to be very familiar with them. I still really, really want to write fiction, but I spent far too much time on it in the past with far too little to show for it. I'm taking a creative writing course next semester, so if that goes well, I'll consider getting back into it.
Writing - my hobbies. I wrote on the Russian language... onсe or twice little story. I will be start write on English language in 2018 year. And will begin of the several little story.
Hobbyist. Although, if I write a book that goes well enough I am not opposed to becoming a professional writer.
I chose hobbyist. I want to write a book because I have a great idea (at least I think) for one. Even if a perfect world happened where I finished this book, published it, and it actually did good on the market, I don't think I'd want to go to full time writing simply because I don't want to be pushed on deadlines and forced to find creativity when it might not be there. If I wanna write a book, great, but let me do it when I feel like it and when I naturally come up with a good idea that I don't get bored of. Also, it seems like my writing currently isn't even "part time." More like if I get a chapter done a week I'm doing great. I feel like that wouldn't go over very well as a full time writer...
Amateur Hopeful. I'd say I'm kinda treading the line between that and hobbyist, but it is a career I want. You could also say I'm an English student, as I'm currently on an English GCSE course, having never got them in school. After the course is over, I intend to do English A level and then possibly a degree once I've completed that. I've wanted to be a writer since I was 12 years old, and it's something I lost for a few years, but have it back now. I'm not wonderful with deadlines and work ethic just yet, which I know would be something I'd need to work on. I have no delusions about hitting it big out of nowhere. A job in the industry once I've got all my qualifications will do me fine whilst I work on the material I want published. I have submitted a poem to a magazine, though I will make no money if they decide to to publish it.
