Go Write
Do you know why people write?
I know everyone has their reasons: reflection, pleasure, communication, direction, expression, and the occasional reprieve from reality. All of us process life differently.
A monk befriends silence.
A photographer captures images.
A videographer moves pictures.
A painter strokes colors.
A dancer cuts the air.
A musician makes sound.
A runner clears distances.
But a writer? A writer sits…and stares.
Why? Why choose this medium as the means to capture life and all the ways it moves and sways and feels. Why try to capture pain and glory and sadness and joy through nothing more than this endless stare at lines and curves?
Our imaginations are powerful.
Like a room packed to the brim with fireworks, all it needs is a small spark and an explosion of colors and images will dance across the skies of our minds. Writing, good writing, has the power to be such a spark.
Oh, to paint a thousand images at once, to run a million miles in one stride, to offer fanciful and fabulous images of what could be…
…to help others imagine.
That is why I want to write.
That is why I write.