Penning with pride

GLENN DUNKS

Contributor, Metro (2013–present)

I don’t know who said it first, but there is a popular self-help meme that says you are a writer as long as you write. It doesn’t matter whether you’re afforded the opportunity to write what you wish to write for a living, or whether you partake as nothing more than a hobby or on the side. Fictional novels, investigative journalism, personal blog or whatever other form, it doesn’t matter as you sit down at your keyboard or notebook – you are