Why Do You Write???
Are you writing to feel good, accomplished or creative?
Are you writing for money and/or recognition?
Many of us are writing up a storm. Writing nurtures us, we love our words, they feel good, they feel right, and they make us laugh and cry. Writing asks and answers questions, we ponder our words. Tossing them around much like a ship riding a storm, our words are worn, or fresh, crisp words jumping off the page, into our head and our soul. We paint a picture with our poetry, poems as fresh as the dewdrop glistening in the morning sun.
We picture ourselves as the next bestselling author, sitting at a crowded table selling books. We write poems for our friends and give them out as birthday gifts. Or we write for ourselves, filling journals, notebooks in the creative time of day when our minds are open and the words pour out, quickly, powerfully as we try to keep up with them, writing feverishly.
Now, I create myself as a serious writer. I add writer, publisher to my bio and I tell people that I am a writer, but something is not quite right. I write when I feel like it, I write when I have a deadline, and then I don't write at all. I have brilliant ideas of stories I want to write, short stories, life stories. I start, keeping a notebook by my bed, ready at all times for the creative impulse to overtake me.
Who am I accountable to? Where is the responsibility to my writing? How do I practice self-discipline?
These are important questions, and now is the time to answer them...
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