Writer's Fallout Shelter

Age isn't a restriction; lack of skill and experience are. You have to live and do and feel in order to writer.

And this, folks, is why we have adjectives. I might have called myself a writer as early as Fifth Grade (if I hadn't been too busy dodging Mr. B.'s attempts to "socialize" me by forcing me to play sports). I might've called myself a writer in my early twenties, were I not otherwise occupied teaching English as a second language and working as a systems engineer. I called myself a writer when I was made a technical writer (but it wasn't the kind of writer I'd envisioned being, once upon a time - what the hell is a technical writer, anyway? I wondered.)

And on it goes. So there are adjectives: young, inexperienced, novice, polished, professional, experience, bestselling, technical, imaginative, creative, prolific, formulaic... Read any book review; they're always making up new ones.

Writer, alone, says that you write. It isn't precise enough to say what or how well you write. For that, we need more words. Well...that's music to a writer's ears, isn''t it? More words. We need more words. Perhaps it would be better to ask "What kind of a writer are you?"