How Do I Become A Writer?

The term writer refers to someone who writes, specifically as a profession. this term however can be a broad term including anyone who is the creator of a written work, and also those who write on a creative or professional level, or even those who write in many differing forms. Talented writers exhibit their skills by making use of language to demonstrate concepts and pictures, whether it be fiction or not.

To become a writer, the only thing one essentially has to do, is write. but not just anyone can be a writer. a good writer has to have a good command over the language he is writing in, a good plot or storyline to keep the reader's interest and of course a little extra something to get the publishers to notice you. One can start by writing on a small scale for magazines or online articles.

Well the simple answer is just to write.  Writers write, end of story.  If you mean how do you become a professional writer, one must get someone to pay you to do just that.  

There are lots of opportunities, prizes, awards, competitions for those who want to make money writing that way, whether it be prose, poetry or plays.

There is a need for your work to be completely original (although it's acknowledged that a difficult thing is real originality).  However, no one wants to see ten screenplays as exactly like last year's Oscar winner or ten versions of Philip Larkin's This Be the Verse.

Don't write and edit as you go along, this is the slowest way to work and this quickest way to get bored of a project and end up giving it up as a bad job.   Write your first draft, don't worry about quality, imagine it as a very rough pencil sketch and go from there, sure you will keep some stuff, but the knowledge of what to keep and what to throw away is the gift of the writer.

Try getting your work published online first, poetry sites are popular, content writing makes money, but make sure you understand that once you write for money, it's never the same again because now you are working, not just writing.

Okay, well you're already calling yourself a writer, so that's great. The next thing is to acknowledge that writing is a craft and that it is something that you must work at, like an apprentice to any craft or trade.  It takes time to develop yourself.  The main way to do this is to continue to write and learn from  your own mistakes.  Other people will always have beliefs about your work, but you need to learn to objectively (well as best you can) appraise your work and see its weaknesses and adjust them into strengths.

Work to become a better writer by reading more.  Remember that we were readers before we were writers and this is often the way that we learn from others to become a better writer.

Any craft requires graft, no betterment occurs overnight.  Overnight successes take years of grafting.  Write daily.  Write harder.  Use less words.

Two things are relevant here. First, have great imagination. Second, have mastery over the language to craft suitably nuanced expressions to graft your idea onto. This may not be achieved overnight, unless you are gifted. But practice makes one perfect.