Is Everyone An Author?

Is everyone an author? Yes, I believe everyone has shown through their lifetime ways that they have been authors. Every day we do things which makes us authors, whether its share a paper with a class, write an email to a group of friends, or post on Facebook a story of an event you experienced.  From the moment you were a child and had learned to write sentences, you had begun your journey into a world of publishing. In our present society we have at our finger tips the internet, which holds opportunities that no one in the past has ever been given. We have Twitter, Facebook, blogs like this one here, and emails that lets us express our thoughts through writing and then lets us publish our work so that the world can see. 

       Before the internet, the difference between an author and a writer was large. A writer was anyone who put their words on paper, but an author was someone recognized, whose work had been published. Today we can publish anything we wish to and the difference between an author and writer has little distinction. With all the opportunities we have today, let us embrace them and write to the world!