Comments on: Why I Write http://www.twentysomethingwriters.com/2009/04/06/why-i-write/ Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:29:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Katie K http://www.twentysomethingwriters.com/2009/04/06/why-i-write/comment-page-1/#comment-642 Katie K Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:41:52 +0000 http://www.twentysomethingwriters.com/?p=214#comment-642 I love the incorporation of the quotes. I'm a huge quote lover! I love the incorporation of the quotes. I’m a huge quote lover!

]]> By: Megan http://www.twentysomethingwriters.com/2009/04/06/why-i-write/comment-page-1/#comment-622 Megan Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:23:50 +0000 http://www.twentysomethingwriters.com/?p=214#comment-622 I started my current blog after a long period of not writing. I was hoping it would get me back into writing, and it really has. I started my current blog after a long period of not writing. I was hoping it would get me back into writing, and it really has.

]]> By: Hannah http://www.twentysomethingwriters.com/2009/04/06/why-i-write/comment-page-1/#comment-620 Hannah Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:36:49 +0000 http://www.twentysomethingwriters.com/?p=214#comment-620 Annie Dillard's brilliant take on writing: “One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right way, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly is lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.” I absolutely love this quote, because she captures oh so well why I pick up the pen each day. It's to release energy, emotion. It's to tell my story, even if no one takes the time to read it. It's to fill and empty myself. It's to capture and unleash that one frozen moment, making it fluid again, somehow, through description. It's relishing in rawness, in reality (and in fantasty, too). It's giving---so that nothing is lost. Annie Dillard’s brilliant take on writing: “One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right way, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly is lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”

I absolutely love this quote, because she captures oh so well why I pick up the pen each day. It’s to release energy, emotion. It’s to tell my story, even if no one takes the time to read it. It’s to fill and empty myself. It’s to capture and unleash that one frozen moment, making it fluid again, somehow, through description. It’s relishing in rawness, in reality (and in fantasty, too). It’s giving—so that nothing is lost.

]]> By: Amber @ "Amber Alert" http://www.twentysomethingwriters.com/2009/04/06/why-i-write/comment-page-1/#comment-619 Amber @ "Amber Alert" Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:57:16 +0000 http://www.twentysomethingwriters.com/?p=214#comment-619 I LOVE blogging. Like you, I originally just sat down to write, when people started commenting on it I was estatic. I now find so much joy in writing my own blog and reading and commenting on other people's blogs! I LOVE blogging. Like you, I originally just sat down to write, when people started commenting on it I was estatic. I now find so much joy in writing my own blog and reading and commenting on other people’s blogs!

]]> By: Pam http://www.twentysomethingwriters.com/2009/04/06/why-i-write/comment-page-1/#comment-618 Pam Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:12:14 +0000 http://www.twentysomethingwriters.com/?p=214#comment-618 I started my blog to just vent out my frustrations. But then I started reading more blogs and got ideas, and it kind of grew by massive proportions. It has become my release and a place where I get to contect with other people. I share more about myself then most people know about me. Sometimes it is nerve racking thinking about putting private stuff out there but in the end I feel better about it all. I started my blog to just vent out my frustrations. But then I started reading more blogs and got ideas, and it kind of grew by massive proportions. It has become my release and a place where I get to contect with other people. I share more about myself then most people know about me. Sometimes it is nerve racking thinking about putting private stuff out there but in the end I feel better about it all.

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