Woody Cavenaugh

Sara read "Am I A Writer" over my shoulder and made some comments that set the wheels spinning again. She reasoned that in order to title yourself something, you had to get something back from it. King is a writer because he gets filthy stinky rich everytime he makes paper dirty. A lawyer is a lawyer not because of the esq at the end of their name, but because they make money practicing law. So obviously I hit her with the fencing coach argument which is since I don't make money teaching fencing, than I am not a fencing coach. Without missing a beat she replies, "what you get back is the satisfaction of your students bringing back medals and trophies". Sneaky that one. So based on that I can choose to call myself a writer simply because someone out there enjoys reading what I write. Nice!

I am not sure I should have it printed on business cards yet though.

I could call myself a Blogger. Anyone who has a blog and writes in a blog is a blogger right? Of course then we have to look at the sum of all bloggers and notice that there is a difference between Drudge, Wonket, Instapundit, Cone, Hoggard, Billy, Ovittore The other TP bloggers, Myself, and the blogger who manages (almost) to get something out every blue moon. I simply refuse to aknowledge it right now. First because no one else has in any detail yet, and two because bloggerdom already has enough of a problem with a pecking order forming based on readership. Lets not confuse the new frontier further with questions of quanity of postings, quality of postings, quanity of readership and quality of readership. Besides that doesn't further my neurosis.

This does. Am I a blogger who writes, or a writer who blogs, or a writer of blogs.

Ok, drink.