Why Do You Write?
Pam November 17th, 2009
Probably none of us would answer that question in quite the same way.
Would you keep on writing if you had no hope of publishing your work? If you would, can you explain what motivates you? If you wouldn’t, why not?
We’ve talked about this in our critique group, and we disagree. I’d love to hear your view.
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I read an article in Time magazine years ago (I found it here
when I went searching cyber space for it:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998411,00.html
This article is the single best expression of why I write. I have
read it several times over the past decade and am always
moved by it.
To write is to live according to one’s terms.
“Writing has been so important in America, I think, because communication is the soul and engine of democracy. To write is to live according to one’s
terms.”
I too am writing blindly.