Why Do You Write?

On the road home from WisCon and our post-WisCon writing retreat, Diane Silver asked, “Why do you write?” (This was part of our inspiring writer discussion, intended to keep the driver — me — awake on the road.)

We both said we wrote because we had something to say and wanted to share it with others. That applied to both our fiction and our nonfiction. Diane mentioned the idea of connection — here are some excerpts of her work that deal with the urge to connect. I said something about wanting...