Focused Freewrite : What is a Writer?

A writer is any person who chooses to express himself through the written word. Anyone can be a writer. In writing, or at least in creative writing, there is no good or bad; as the saying goes, "one man's trash is another man's treasure." Some people might argue that only those who have studied the technical aspects of written language and structure or those who have been published are writers. I disagree. In my mind, anyone who has ever written anything as a means of conveying a certain point, thought, emotion, or story is a writer. That person might not be professional per se, but he is still a writer.