Kyra Wallace
asked
Francisco X. Stork:
what made you want to become a writer? more importantly what made you so interested in writing? And how did you know that you wanted to become a writer?
Francisco X. Stork
In some ways I think that writing chooses you and not you writing. It's a kind of urge that makes you feel bad when you don't do it. Like you are not doing what you are meant to be doing. The presence of that urge is also how I knew I wanted to be a writer. When you are young, you think about being a writer, but later, if you start writing you don't want to be a writer as much as you want to write. The difference is in the first place your mind is filled with images of you as a writer after your book is published, maybe someone admired by many, and on the other your mind is full of characters and stories that you want to put down on paper. There are moments in the writing process that are very inspiring. The sails of my mind fill up with wind and I sail over oceans. But there's lots of times when there is no inspiration, no wind. That's when I take out my oars and row. It's hard work. But what keeps me going is that writing is a form of giving. And I think we are happiest when we give.
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