Top 10 Things to Be A Writer

1. Alcohol or Depression

Not authors are troubled in form or another, so if you have this you have most of what you need.

2. A Pen

You know to write with.

3. A laptop or keyboard or typewriter

You know, to write.

4. Insomnia

So you can stay up long nights trying to put together really scatter brained ideas.

5. Coffee

See the above reasons

6. Personal Demons

Ones that can grant wishes to give you great ideas for novels.

7. Persistence

You'll really need this if you are hoping to send things off to a publisher.

8. Luck

You know. Persistence in passivity.

9. Stick if dynamite

It'll become clear later.

10. Money

Because you still have to eat.