A Crafted Truth That Might Be Fiction: A Reflection of Writing and Why I Do It.

I don’t remember how this obsession started for me, but it’s something that I always expressed interest in since I was pretty little. Maybe it got started after my mom took me to the library on…

I Write Because I Want To Sing and Dance (among other things)

I think I always wanted to be a writer, but under the guise of wanting to be other things. I wanted to be an archaeologist. I wanted to be a doctor. For a while I even wanted to be the person that rode on the back of a…

The Devil’s Applebee’s (or why I am a writer)

One of my father’s favorite sayings is “like a fish to water,” he used it the first time I said I wanted to be an artist when I grew up and even when I created the job title “archaeologist veterinarian”. Time after time he’s used it after I’ve…

A Bruise and a Bandage

The simplest response to the question of why I write is this; I love it. Now, this statement can be taken in many ways. Love is divisive. It hurts as much as it brings pleasure. Love is a storm and a sunny patch of blue sky, a bruise and a bandage in equal measure. The process of putting…

He Asked Me Why I Write

About a week ago, I sat in a chair in a cramped, stuffy classroom and got asked the doomed question: Why do you write? I sat there and quietly pondered the question — I took the rest of the week to do the same.

To write or Not to write?

My answer is simple: history is what I strive to be apart of. Yes, my family will remember my chicken scratch long after I’m gone and the irritating nights where I could barely squeeze out a non-fragmented declaritve sentence, but what about everyone else? Other than my teacher and…

Answering the unanswerable question

Why do I write?

I write because I was an only child. When I read a book or watched a movie, I always wished that the story could go on, that I could live in that world and interact with those characters everyday. I wanted to take the story…

Deductions of a Writer

If someone asked me why I started writing I’d probably answer with this: self- satisfaction.

As a child I was a voracious reader, still am. I read children’s books and YA books of all different genres and for most of the books I read I couldn’t help but…