It sounds as if part of the problem is that you thought you'd always be a writer, and so to change that you're trying to come to grips with never being a writer again. I see two parts to that: one, I think you're right about labels. Being "a writer" sounds harder to live up to than just writing. Used to be you wrote fiction. Now you still write (quite a lot and very well!) but these days it's mostly in a memoir format. That doesn't sound so awful.
But second, I don't quite believe in "ars longa, vita brevis". Vita, while you're in the middle of it, goes on for quite a long time - from a subjective viewpoint, for all the time there is. You don't *have* to say always and never about it, especially for things like writing that you can do at any age; you can just say that you wrote fiction in the past, you don't seem to have a drive to write fiction right now, who knows what will happen in the future?
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Date: 2008-01-04 02:25 am (UTC)But second, I don't quite believe in "ars longa, vita brevis". Vita, while you're in the middle of it, goes on for quite a long time - from a subjective viewpoint, for all the time there is. You don't *have* to say always and never about it, especially for things like writing that you can do at any age; you can just say that you wrote fiction in the past, you don't seem to have a drive to write fiction right now, who knows what will happen in the future?
(Edited to add a crucial missing verb.)