How can you tell that you were meant to be a writer?

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an illustrator. Then I learned how to write, and I wanted to write.

I wrote all through elementary school and middle school and high school. I realized I wasn't going to be publishing right out of school, so I started college with the intention of becoming an art teacher. Then an elementary school teacher. Then editing (one of my favorite authors had done copyediting for a children's publisher, so I thought it was a good idea).

I was still writing (how could I stop?) and in a load of literature classes. I decided I wanted to teach literature, and by the end of each semester my instructors agreed that it was something I could pursue and that I would do well in graduate school.

Finally, my third year of college, I took a creative writing class with the creative writer director. After my first reading, the professor held me after class and told me that I should really, really consider studying writing (and some other things that were so encouraging, I really started to worry that what was happening wasn't real, that I was in a trance or losing my mind). Within a few days, I decided I would study writing and teach that instead of literature (though I promised myself my classes would have plenty of interesting reads). It was one of the happiest transitions of my life.

I always was a writer, I think, but I was afraid. Too much flak already for studying the humanities, and my first creative writing professor announced to the class on the first day, "Don't teach creative writing."

My point is this. I spent years just WAITING for some sign or person to come along and prove to me that I should study writing. And that's stupid.

Don't waste time. If you want to write, WRITE. Don't let doubt or a lack of approval stop you, if that's what you're looking for.

I don't think there's such a thing as "meant to be". I've always been pretty good at telling stories and I read a lot and I have a fantastic vocabulary and language fascinates me so it wouldn't have been a hard guess.

THAT SAID, I'm still young and I'm fairly certain that I'm going to wind up a scientist because I prefer science to writing by a pretty fair bit. Maybe "real writers" have an angelic choir?

I think I'm significantly more shallow than most writers because I never get any of those mystical feelings that would cause me to believe that I must write to live and breathe. I do it when I feel like it and not otherwise. I have reasonable success in a very niche market (that pays squat) but I don't particularly believe I was born to do this in any grander way than that I enjoy it. Do it if you like to and don't make things complicated by worrying about destiny.

You must sleep three nights at the full moon with a rock taken from a pool of water in a forest. After the third night, if you arise at the break of dawn, you will see a message woven from spider webs: WRITE. If you see no such message, then you must choose to either find another passion or just slog away at writing every day until you feel like a writer.

You can tell that you were meant to be a writer because ... you're writing.

"Meant to be" shouldn't factor in. If you want to be a good writer you spend your life studying and perfecting your craft. Some people have a good grasp of the tools writers need to write well when they are beginners, but no one starts out writing flawless prose. It's something that requires work, like most things in life.

Seventeen seraphim carrying flaming swords and mounted on rainbow-colored unicorns fly down and hand you a glowing stone tablet on which is carved "YOU ARE MEANT TO BE A WRITER."

Until this happens, you are not permitted to write anything. It's the law.

Probably when people start stealing your words, stealing what you have written. The problem with this is that it goes around the world a few times before it comes back and yet what you had written was not complete and no one added a single thought to what you may have been writing about.

The answer is simple.

'I write for the same reason I breathe, because if it didn't I would die' and 'A real writer doesn't want to write, a real writer has to write.'

You would love writing or making up stories and slowly they get longer and more detailed. You normally would have a creative personality and/or calm.

hope i helped :)