What writing means to me

I’m going through my writing notebooks, and I came across something from several years ago I felt I should share. At a writing group meeting, we had an exercise of coming up with one word that describes what writing means to us. I debated between knowledge, immortality, and freedom. I was going to go with freedom, but the woman leading the group used that as an example, so I went with immortality instead. This is what I wrote.

The one thing I would like most in life would to be immortal. I wan...