Why This Story?

Hello and welcome to the fifth Wednesday here at the blog where we talk about goals, the writer’s life, and the care and feeding of the writerly types.  It’s been a complicated few months and not fixing to become any less complicated, but I’m not going to wade into that today.  Instead, I’d like to talk about motivation – and not just what drives us to write, but what drives us to pick the stories we work on.

I was listening to a podcast recently (which will come as a shock to absolutely no one ...