“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
Sidonie Gabrielle
Gabrielle
Based on this quote, I want to be an author.
Other differences between what makes an author and what makes a writer are illustrated in this graphic from this interesting read:
However, due to the ease of publishing, everyone and anyone can publish a book, thus earning the title “author”. Not all books or authors are equal though.
So, to revise my earlier declaration:
I want to be an author.
I want to be an exemplary author. An author that creates “dangerous writing”.
Monique L. Desir was born and raised in Florida. She's an educator who hasn’t quite figured out how to escape the Sunshine State and is surviving and thriving within its alligator-infested clutches with her husband and three sons. The daughter of West Indian parents (Haitian father, Jamaican mother), she loves learning about different cultures, languages and people. She binge-watches forensic television shows and Soca dances until she glows! Why? So she can have seconds on cake! Her stories have been published in FIYAH Literary Magazine, Nightlight Podcast, Colorism Essays and Poems anthology Volume 2, and Rivière Blanche's 2019 Dimension Uchronie short story anthology, and forthcoming in The Dread Machine. Find her on Twitter @moniquedesir.
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