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To my way of thinking --
To be a writer just means they wrote something. A professional writer means they were paid for something they wrote. Neither of those is a solid indicator of the quality of what they wrote.
I imagine statistics support that words-for-pay are written to a higher average standard but my anecdotal evidence suggests pay just isn't a strong enough separator. Maybe I'm just too much a curmudgeon when I think most writing is crap.
I do agree with what Rizla mentioned. Everyone has a number of "bad words in them." That is just another way of saying writing is a craft and we expect craftsmanship to improve with experience.
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