How Has Writing Positively Influenced Your Life? (Writing Contest)

This is my entry to Positive Writer’s 2015 essay contest.

How has writing positively influenced your life?

It’s a simple question, wide open to interpretation. And it’s one we probably don’t stop to ponder often enough as we wander through this journey of “being a writer”.

You have to stop to ask it occasionally, because the answer to this question is thereason you write.

And don’t say money. Everyone can say money. But that’s not good enough.

I used to feel compelled to write to share a message w...