I’m going to put a disclaimer on here right away and say I just finished writing my Politics class term paper (which I put off until the very last minute – see procrastination blog from last week) and I’m exhausted. But I just remembered Monday is my day so if this goes totally incoherent, you’ll know why.

So as aspiring romance authors we write fiction. Grant it some people around here like to throw in lots of non-fiction but they shall remain nameless. For the most part we focus on creative writing, telling a story, creating a world. But what about other kinds of writing?

In my lifetime I’ve written letters, short stories, screenplays, commercial copy, news copy, articles, term papers, blogs and now romance. The way I see it, a writer is a writer. You may be better at one of these areas than another but when it comes down to it, if you’re a writer you can write anything.

Let me ask you – who is going to write the cute little biography about yourself on your website? You know once you start selling books (before really) you’ll need to have a website. Who is going to write all those blogs that you’ll be asked to do when you sell that first book? A blog isn’t really fiction after all. It’s something else entirely.

Do you ever stop to think about all the different things you write in the course of a day? Blogs, emails, bulletin board/forum posts, ads, letters, special sentiments, recipes, directions. We’re always writing something and my theory is a writer is a writer is a writer. What is your theory?