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Writers are entrepreneurs. They spend their time sharing all sorts of information with the world and what do they get for it? Backbreaking work, minimal income, and limited time to spend with their families! That's why they fit into the category of entrepreneurs so easily.

What do writers really do? They create stories out of words and then try to sell them to publishers for a decent price. Isn't that what a lot of entrepreneurs do too? Aren't there a lot of inventors who claim to be entrepreneurs?

The definition of the noun, entrepreneur, according to the Oxford, American Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus is: a person who undertakes a commercial risk for profit. The adjective for entrepreneur is entrepreneurial. The adverb is entrepreneurially, and another noun related to entrepreneur is entrepreneurship defined as adventurer and opportunist. It certainly sounds like this description and definition could easily define a writer too.

The definition of the noun, writer, according to the same above mentioned source is: a person who writes especially as a profession; author. To write is to compose, as to invent is to create. Don't writers and inventors do the same thing with different mediums then? And what of it, if they never enter into the business of what they are trying to do?

Writers are entrepreneurs because they must enter the business of writing to be successful. Whether they do so on a grand scale, making the New York Times Bestselling List in record time, or whether they self publish on the internet, earning pennies every time their work is viewed makes little difference. They must consider the business and marketing aspects of their chosen profession to actually try to earn a living by it.

Writers live for adventure. They can't wait to share all of their new ideas, ideas that are often way outside the bounds of normal thought processes, by composing them into a grand and glorious tale, filled with things no one else would dare to think of, let alone put down in print. After developing such a marvelous masterpiece, it only makes sense that they would try to find the perfect opportunity to sell it.

And sell it they do, so we can end up reading amazing stories about wars in the sky, children living in giant peaches, jungle animals protecting and raising human babies, future nuns singing their way out of Nazi territory and discovering true love with a built in family, big mice creating theme parks that share too many stories to mention here. Yes, writers are entrepreneurs, and the first keyboard stroke is only the tip of the iceberg.

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