I often read the Positive Writer blog by Bryan Hutchinson – a recent one got me thinking. Bryan listed 40 reasons why he chooses to write, and challenged his readers to do the same. I’m not sure I can come up with 40 reasons! But the Positive Writer blog is all about positivity – so let’s jump right in and give it a go 🙂
- I write because I love to read
- Creating stories that are meaningful and give joy to other people is a delight
- Hearing from readers, a single reader, that they have found pleasure in my words gives me a smile that lasts for days
- I enjoy playing with words to paint the thoughts and scenes I see so clearly in my head
- I write because it’s challenging, it’s hard and uplifting at the same time
- I love researching new things
- Even when I get lost in research when I should be writing, I always get back to the writing eventually
- Writing lets me explore thoughts and ideas that are important to me
- Writing lets me discover new things
- I write to express emotions that are hard to talk about
- Getting a poem just right makes me feel like a modern day William Wordsworth
- I write because I can
- Writing lets me get out of the house, even when I’m stuck in the house
- I love the look on someone’s face when I tell them I’m a writer
- Words are important, even fiction – especially fiction – can make a difference
- Most people think it’s cool to be a writer
- Writers are a great bunch of people to hang around with
- I write to remember
- Sometimes when I’m writing, long forgotten memories and emotions fly at me
- Words are powerful
- I wrote my first poem at age 7, I thought I’d burst with pride when my teacher asked me to read it out to the class
- I’ve used words, in one way or another for most of my career – even a short stint at technical writing once (not something I’m planning on returning to anytime soon!)
- Writing is my main creative outlet – paper crafting is the other
- I write because I have so many ideas, so many stories to tell
- Editing can be as much fun as writing, more fun sometimes
- Editing is when the story I tried to tell in my first draft starts to take shape
- I admire people who write so beautifully I have to read the same line, the same paragraph, over and over because I don’t want to let it go
- I aspire to writing words that wriggle their way into people’s hearts
- I love it when someone tells me I make them giggle, or I make them cry – honestly I prefer the giggling to the crying, but any emotional response is a good thing!
- I love it when my own writing gives me a shiver
- I’m not sure about muses… but I’ve always thought that my subconscious throwing out plot hole resolutions at 3 AM is a grand thing
- Writing and editing (especially editing) are good excuses for eating chocolate
- Living in the worlds I create is sometimes more fun than living in the real world
- Writing gives me a purpose
- Writing is a good excuse for drinking coffee
- I can’t believe I’ve got to 34 reasons… I should check for duplicates
- Sometimes a reader tells me what they’ve taken away from my stories, and I want to give them a high five for clarifying back to me what I was trying to say
- I can write anywhere, anytime
- Writing as a career, is entirely my own hands
- I write because – in spite of the challenges, in spite of the sleepless nights – nothing else gives me the same high
Phew! 40 reasons why I write! I can actually think of more now that I’m writing non-fiction as well as fiction 😀
I’d love to hear your reasons for writing 🙂 If you’d like to participate in this challenge, you can read Bryan’s challenge kick-off and his list of 40 reasons here!
Note: all of the above images are from fabulous Pixabay
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