Comments on: Why I Write http://www.dracotorre.com/blog/2009/12/why-i-write/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:25:22 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David G Shrock http://www.dracotorre.com/blog/2009/12/why-i-write/comment-page-1/#comment-243 David G Shrock Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:52:09 +0000 http://www.dracotorre.com/blog/?p=417#comment-243 Sharing "what it means to be human" sounds like a wonderful reason. Sharing “what it means to be human” sounds like a wonderful reason.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.dracotorre.com/blog/2009/12/why-i-write/comment-page-1/#comment-240 Melissa Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:50:10 +0000 http://www.dracotorre.com/blog/?p=417#comment-240 I like the idea of sharing ghosts with each other. Honestly, I think doing that is what drives me to write. It is in sharing them that we can become closer and heal. And also learn to live at the heights and depths of what it means to be human. (As a professor of mine used to say--humanity "at full stretch.") I like the idea of sharing ghosts with each other. Honestly, I think doing that is what drives me to write. It is in sharing them that we can become closer and heal. And also learn to live at the heights and depths of what it means to be human. (As a professor of mine used to say–humanity “at full stretch.”)

]]> By: J. M. Strother http://www.dracotorre.com/blog/2009/12/why-i-write/comment-page-1/#comment-210 J. M. Strother Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:57:55 +0000 http://www.dracotorre.com/blog/?p=417#comment-210 It sounds like you write simply because you are driven to write - you have stories in you that simply need to come out. I think that is why a great many people write. Not for publication or accolades, but simply to get the stories in their heads down on paper.<br><br>If those stories end up getting published, earning money and respect, so much the better - but it would not matter. They'd be written anyway. It may just be the best reason in the world to write.<br>~jon It sounds like you write simply because you are driven to write – you have stories in you that simply need to come out. I think that is why a great many people write. Not for publication or accolades, but simply to get the stories in their heads down on paper.

If those stories end up getting published, earning money and respect, so much the better – but it would not matter. They'd be written anyway. It may just be the best reason in the world to write.
~jon

]]> By: David G Shrock http://www.dracotorre.com/blog/2009/12/why-i-write/comment-page-1/#comment-209 David G Shrock Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:15:39 +0000 http://www.dracotorre.com/blog/?p=417#comment-209 Yes, I don't think I can find reasons behind my interests carried since I was very young. It's like the way it's always been, and maybe that's reason enough. <br><br>Nothing compelled me to write, never gave it much thought, not until a few years ago. Yes, I don't think I can find reasons behind my interests carried since I was very young. It's like the way it's always been, and maybe that's reason enough.

Nothing compelled me to write, never gave it much thought, not until a few years ago.

]]> By: markkerstetter http://www.dracotorre.com/blog/2009/12/why-i-write/comment-page-1/#comment-208 markkerstetter Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:15:18 +0000 http://www.dracotorre.com/blog/?p=417#comment-208 Don't know why, have been compelled to ever since I was very young. But like you, I always think of one person (one reader), as if I am speaking to that one person. Don't know why, have been compelled to ever since I was very young. But like you, I always think of one person (one reader), as if I am speaking to that one person.

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