I am a ....

OK, still trying to work out what to say when people ask me what I do. I feel slightly disingenuous to say that I am writer. So far I am yet to make a penny. My last script got some interest from the industry; nice things were said about voice and style, all very good to hear but it didn’t make me any richer. And so can I say that I am a writer?

I don’t know - probably not. But the alternatives:

Between jobs – probably closer to the mark but it does sound a bit too much like:
Unemployed – which is of course literally true
Dosser – no comment

Mind you I have just left my job of three years and I couldn’t tell you what I did then either. Well I could do but I would lose interest half way through my own sentence.