i write, therefore i…

Michele Catalano
4 min readJan 29, 2021

I am a writer.

Or, am I? I honestly don’t know. I don’t know the rules about calling yourself a writer, and my confusion is made worse by people who put restrictions on what it takes to call yourself a writer. Do you do it full time? Do you do it every day? Do you get paid for it? Do people read what you write? Do any of these things matter?

Michele Catalano

Writer, civil servant, dog lover