Wait for the thoughts to come, get them in order, then put them into words. Sand off the rough edges of the rough draft, and you re good to go. They are ideas that you can apply to your own writing for courses in the humanities and social sciences, or to any other endeavor in which you are asked to convey your thoughts in written form. And Why They Are Wrong 1. Writers are a separate caste of people, or at least people who make a living based on what they write.
Writers are simply people who write.
And very, very few are able to make anything approaching a decent living wage from their work. There is no essential difference between writers and non-writers, except that the former write and the latter don t. That is as far as it goes. You should always be very suspicious when you hear someone say that he wants to be a writer. It is a pretty good indication that the person is laboring under the illusion that he must do some particular something, perform some act of initiation, speak to some secret oracle in order to be welcomed into the exalted society of the writing class.