I came across a list by Terence Blacker, designed to elicit whether you are really, truly an author? There's a lot of gold in that list, and I agreed with many of the items (disagreed with a few, too). It got me thinking about the three aspects of being a fiction creator which I've been meaning to talk about anyway. I think the triad is, in alphabetical order: Author Storyteller Writer I think they are three very different aspects to the craft and require different skills and talents. This post will focus on the first: authorship. Blacker has some poignant thoughts about authorship, which I'm defining as the professional content creator. His list covers specifically writers, but I'd argue that authorship applies to scriptwriters, playwrights, game designers, et. al.