According to Wikipedia, an author is broadly defined as the person who originated or gave existence to anything. Being an author or writer requires not only creativity but also patience.

Authors or writers often create their own characters; they make the ordinary stuffs we often see very interesting. Oftentimes, authors loosely base their personal experiences in creating their plot-line or the characters itself. They write about life, love, friendship, family and anything under or around the blazing sun, or simply just anything that cross their minds.

Why patience? Any creative being should have patience in them. Why do you think writers can illustrate and portray their feelings? Writing, not necessarily a story, requires the author to use the process called trial-and-error. They try different ideas until it fit to the story line.

Now, being an author is as quite easy as one-two-three but what's hard is to make others notice your stories, articles or your existence as a writer. There are many some that will read what you wrote, may it be articles, stories or rants, the real challenge is just starting there. Writers need constructive criticisms; they needed to have feed-backs on what they should improve more. The sad fact is, not unless your story or articles make it to the papers, there'll be few to little amount of feed-backs - or worst case scenario, none.

Amateur writers needed to be recognized at the very least, so that they can expand their skills in creation of their own worlds, more.

Being a writer is no easy, but writing, I daresay is what authors do for a living or for sharing stuffs they can't really open to others.