6 Reasons Why We Write
6 Reasons Why We Write…thank you Georgina Cromarty and Chris Graham!
Why do I write? Perhaps because writing dissolves time… and the powerful emotions aroused by both mundane and sublime events are productively channeled…because I have so much to say and no one who can listen endlessly…because as a maverick muse, I have experiences others who have lived the conventional life may want to hear about and resonate with….and for so many other reasons…
Why do YOU write?
Originally posted on The Writing Chimp:
I want to spill ink onto pages that will break your heart, then mop up the careless mess into words that might fix you.
When we write, we do so for a myriad of reasons that can shift depending on our mood, our environment, events that have happened, or even our time in life.
Sometimes, it is just a bone deep desire that we can neither quantify nor explain. Sometimes we write for a broad spectrum of needs, and sometime for only one.
So, why do we write?
To express how we feel.
Writing at its most fundamental level, is a expression of our inner-most feelings. It doesn’t matter whether you are writing an extreme horror, or a children’s book. We pour our feelings out onto the pages, and may put ourselves into the mind of a psychopath, a soldier, an abandoned child, or a miss-understood teenager. We use our imagination, or…
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