On Reading and Writing a Blog

So, I couldn't help but go back through our older posts and re-read them. I got to our first 'family small writing' the one on writing... And even in such a short amount of time, there's more to say.

I read Rob's post tonight on facebook about writing. Rob is hilarious: 

He has a knack for catching the irony in most aspects of human existence, and ... if you catch him at the right time ... you'll keel over in a pleasing, yet painful fit of laughter. (the kind where your stomach muscles clench up enough for you to loose five pounds and gain a six pack, but where you don't want that feeling of understanding the ridiculousness to leave because it may be forgotten)

So, back to the topic: why do we write?

I said in my last post that blogs for me were for practice, which they still are. But, they've also become a sort of journal. A place I can share my 'musings' with the people I love most. I've started a book for an independent study for school. I like my book and what I've written so far. It's lacking in detail, but that's how I write: I get the basics down and add the backdrop later. 

I thrived on the discipline of the class... and my teacher has dropped off the face of the internet (it was an independent study and we worked through email -- I've never even met her) Anyway, eventually, my progress on the book stopped. I've written enough before (not that any of it's necessarily worth reading), but enough to know that there is no such thing as writers block. You write, or you don't. That doesn't mean it's all good, but there's no excuse to not keep writing. 

My reasons for stopping are lame and boring and there's no chain of events that would explain them---I just stopped. And then I just continued to forget to write at all. 

But, reading Rob's note tonight reminded me to write (thanks for that Rob!) --- And so I blog...

...on writing:

Why do we (writers) write? What's the need? Do we express ourselves better on the 'read' word as oppose to the spoken? Do we all have something to say that should be recorded?

I know I don't have the complete answer... but, I write because I can take the time to say exactly what I want to when I write. I can add the bits that make the story and take out the insignificant details. I can formulate a bit of story that is told, read, and remembered the way I want it to be (at least to me, and in some ways by other readers --- but I won't get into that).

 

I also write because I like creating a story. I like to imagine a situation and the things that would make it better or worse. Or, imagine the characters I would like to meet. I like to explain living through story. I like myth and tradition in books. I like adventure and magic. 

Sometimes life is monotonous and sometimes it's exciting --- it can be anything you want it to be when you write it.