FFW: What is a writer? Are you a writer? Why or why not?

A writer, in the broadest sense of the word, is someone who writes down (via a pen or a computer) what they're thinking, seeing, feeling, or some combination of those three. I guess i'm a writer. What i'm doing now though is mandatory so maybe i'm not. It doesn't feel as real if it's a requirement. You should want to write, not because you're worried about a grade, but because you want to. I think a writer, in his or her purest form, writes because they want to, not because they have to. So I guess when I write for pleasure i'm a writer, and when I write for class I'm an impostor.