[writing] Why do you write?

Why do you write? Why do any of us write? Here’s some of my reasons.

• I have something to say (though I am rarely if ever didactic)


• I like the sound of my own voice, so to speak


• I am in love with the language itself


• Storytelling is fun


• I want to be read


• I want to be remembered as have added something of value to the world

Always hoped that I’d be an apostle

Knew that I would make it if I tried

Then when we retire we can write the gospels

So they’ll still talk about us when we’ve died

What about you? Why do you write?

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