Writers Write ... Right?

What qualifications do you need to��call yourself a��writer?

I used to ask this question of myself often. What criteria do I have to meet to call myself a writer? Is it how many times I've been published, how often or long I write, how commercially successful I am or the number of good reviews I receive? I was worried about a lot of these things. In many ways it became a block to my creativity because I thought that if I had to publish to be writer then I had to write those things that could be