I had to update my Playwright’s profile on the Playwrights Guild of Canada website.

I hadn’t updated in over ten years.

There was the option to add a descriptor. Emerging? Or Established?

Years ago, it was easy. I was just starting to write plays. At the time, I was “emerging”.

I’ve gotten older. But it would be a stretch to call myself “established”.

I don’t feel like I’ve produced enough or at a high enough level to consider myself established.

But it also seems strange to keep calling myself “emerging”.

I wrote my first play seventeen years ago!

That’s one heck of a long emergence!

So, I left it blank.

It’s also been a few years since I’ve been writing consistently.

A Covid casualty.

At least, that’s what I tell myself.

In some ways, I feel like I’m starting over. So, maybe I am emerging.

Or at least resurfacing.

That’s it. I’m a resurfacing playwright.

And it isn’t the label that’s important anyway.

It’s the process.

I’m working on a play. So, I’m a playwright.

And that’s good enough for me.