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There was an app I used to use called Slowly [1]. It's a digital pen-pal application; letters still take a varying amount of time to arrive at your location. I actually still use it, letters between my penpal in Georgia (the Caucasus one) take 3ish days to arrive. If it sounds like your thing I could only recommend trying it out. It has a cool stamp-collecting feature, although that is also what they designed their monetary model around.
Inside me is some drive to write, apparently. I don't think of myself as a writer, yet, for the better part of the last three or four years I've been going between regular journaling, letter-writing, and Midnight Pubbing, so maybe I should reevaluate.
[1] https://slowly.app/
Ah, I love the paper aspect of my letters, though--composing washi tape and a sheet from a notepad and pens of various colors... There is an [evil facebook product] that seems like it could replicate some of the expressive/aesthetic joy I get from putting them together visually, but I won't use that and I haven't seen much else that manages it.
I think that "being a writer" is a very useless category. If you relate to language in a certain way, that means something, and if you produce it expressively, that's also meaningful, and your smaller-audience writing is absolutely as significant as anything anyone does.