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I'm a Writer

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I am a Writer! I read this post in the morning, and it made me smile!

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Aug 20Liked by Dan Hunt, Lyle McKeany

I'm a writer!!!! Thank you Lyle for writing this!

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I’m a writer! :)

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I am a Writer. Someone read my words and ... behold!

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I'm a Writer! (and spending a lot of time in Foster made this a lot easier for me to say, even though it's as true now as it was when I started the cohorts last year)

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Aug 24·edited Aug 24Liked by Lyle McKeany

I decided to like the post just make sure there is a woman listed there. I see there are plenty of women writers though. Hmmm. Am I am a writer and a people pleaser?

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I can add my voice to the chorus, too, but I can't resist adding that to say this with full conviction requires a sense of belonging to the tradition, to the craft. For me, being a Writer is both empowering and humbling, because I think it requires me to pay some attention to what's been written, too.

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I’m a writer. Lyle, that first post of yours helped me so much when I was starting out on Substack. The fact that I didn’t need to know what I was writing about, that I didn’t need to have a plan and could just discover it along the way was super liberating. Thanks again for that, buddy🙏🏻

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Aug 20Liked by Lyle McKeany

Ah very relatable! Reminds me of an anecdote I recently shared:

Last year, in a fiction class, the teacher asked who wrote full-time. I raised my lil’ Zoom hand: “Writer at a tech company, I write blog articles.” I was swiftly humbled with: “That doesn’t count!” Oof. But it illustrates a truth: a writer in one room can be a non-entity in another. Tech writing ≠ literary fiction. A writer in tech differs from one in media, literature, academia, or journalism. Each field has its own definition of ‘writer’—often exclusive to those already in the room. It’s a reminder that the title writer is as much about context and perception as it is about the act of writing itself.

https://carly.substack.com/i/147852055/who-gets-to-call-themselves-a-writer

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Aug 20Liked by Lyle McKeany

I'm a writer.

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Aug 20·edited Aug 20Liked by Lyle McKeany

I'm an awesome writer 🤩

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Love it all. Thank you, Foster.

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So are you a Writer, Russell? :)

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That's the word on the street!

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