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Ever since I can remember, I have longed to write. Even as a little girl, when I was in Grade School, I would get a piece of paper and write whatever comes to mind. My teacher would notice me and ask, "What are you doing? What are you writing?" Embarrassed, I would answer, I don't know Ma'am, I just want to write." "So you want to write. Good! Make that your ambition and you will be a writer."
There are all kinds of writers. There are those who write because it is there passion to write. Some write for monetary reasons and some write to share their thoughts with anyone who would read their writings.
But what I've learned from writers, is that they first read! As Debbie Porter says, " To write without being a reader, is like gardening without loving plants, or being a chef and hating food." So writers are great readers too. Sometimes they get their ideas from the books they read and there's nothing wrong about that.
I have a lot of books, the read and the unread. Books that inspire and motivate me to write. I don't write for the money. I write for the pure and simple fun of it. I write for the simple reason that I love writing so I can share my innermost thoughts with my readers. I love to write so I can inspire and motivate them, just as I am motivated by what I read. I want them to know that there is a spiritual solution to every problem; that God created us for joy and not to suffer. It is only when we forget that we are never separated from God that we succumb to our problems.
But I digress.
Here is something interesting I read about a writer. "A writer is someone who has written today." Not someone who writes for money. Not someone who writes for publication or fame. Not someone who talks about writing, or reads about writing, or thinks about writing or attends writing conference. Not someone who has writen in the past or will write in the future.
A writer is someone who has written today and every day.
The best reason to write is you can't NOT write!
As Jim Paredes of the APO fame says, "Writing, aside from other rewards, is mostly a private joy. There is a secret pleasure even if one writes just for one's self, similar to the ultimate pleasure of being God. Every writer wants to share one's soul with the rest of the world. Even God, the Source of all Being was compelled to break the boredom of nothingness/darkness and thus created everything."
As Ken Wilber posited on why God did it, "Because no one wants to have dinner alone."> |