Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Are bloggers writers?

Is this even a question?

If so, here's an attempt at an answer:

It’s a stance wholly familiar to me. Being a blogger somehow inevitably cancels out my being a writer, a professional.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course, and I imagine people who vehemently contend bloggers aren’t writers are trying to disguise and deflect their own insecurities. However, the whole debate just sincerely gives me pause, and makes me wonder why anyone would consider it worth their time to police who does (and doesn’t) get to call themselves a writer.

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