hello all, i know there is instructional info, and i have read plenty of threads trying to gain insight on how to acquire writer status. i have emailed worldwatcher, with no reply. i understand the basic 'rules' to gaining writer status, but i am just trying to get some advice from those who have writer status, as to what particular paths they took that lead them to it... or at least how to gain 'permission' to write in the collaborative writing forum...

i have been published on 3 occasions, and i currently have a short story that is under review by the office of the dean of students at vanderbilt university, although it has nothing at all to do with medicine...

any info would be greatly appreciated.

I have absolutely no idea how I got 'writer' status. It just happened one day several years ago.

Answer: Participate in a writing contest, simple as that.

How do I know? Look at my title, I am a writer.

I have changed my mind I will leave this thread here for other new members who might also be interested.

And a hat tip to Misoir for providing an excellent link

I'm a writer, too.

I'm a reporter in my day job, but I write romance novels and night. I've published twenty-five books with various publishers such as AOL TimeWarner/HarperCollins/Harlequin, etc. It'd be fun to hook up with other writers around here.

Pam

www.pamelabritton.com

cant i post a poem? i got tons of those in a blog somewhere ..

if not ill go ahead and enter the contest.