Ultimately, it comes down to this: if you write, you’re a writer. If you don’t, you’re something else.
That’s kind of what I took away from my interview this past summer with Charlaine Harris. Granted, not every writer has published every single novel they’ve ever written, but ultimately she had completed manuscripts going out to publishers, not a bunch of wishes or incomplete three-chapter starts on something.
A complete manuscript is the first requirement toward becoming a published novelist. There are other steps that follow, but none of them mean anything until that first step is completed. And once you do it, you’ll be happier and when you put things like LSAT prep behind you!
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