A Poetic Article About Why I Write

There are many things that implicate me as a writer, whether in association or accusation, I am defined.

There are many things I want to share to reach the audience I desire and not the masses.

I love the ability to craft and weave tales from bits and pieces of everything and everyone around me, or to make something out of seemingly nothing. I love the simplicity of the art, but I also admire the ability to make writing sophisticated and complex. The length and depth of novels expand in me like lungs breathing.

Writing fiction is like lying. You are telling an untrue story but making it believable. This idea is both hard and easy for me to understand. I am a weaver, as are most humans, by nature. I tug, pull, and wind stories on the spot to make sense of the trauma and set to rights the experience. It is this ability that makes it easy for me to be a writer. The ability to pull truth and stretch it into fiction is useful when writing. I know that I have these traits so that I can be a writer.

My mind explores so many possibilities and scenarios without me consciously being aware of it.

As writers, we allow ourselves to explore things that no one else has before and to present them in believable ways. I can take any situation in my life and manipulate it to make a story. My perspective, once cooled down so that I can change it without hesitation, is digging for the molten core of the experiences we all share. I can find the good in any situation or make something seem far more sinister or cruel just by tweaking it. I tell stories to make life more interesting, the mundane more beautiful, and the cruel a little more manageable.
 I believe in the black and white amidst the gray.
I take control of my characters and I force them to be the way I want them to be until they stretch and become real.
I take liberties with the traits of the people around me and expand them.

I am a novel writer.

That is it. That is what I want to be, and it is my greatest goal and desire as an occupation. I have written short stories (and short-short stories), and I have tried my hand at poetry. I desire to learn how to write plays, but I love writing novels.

Shakespeare saw the world as a stage; I see it as a giant blank page.
I want my work to be beautiful like art. Writing is an art form and a passion. The real meaning is beauty and love, honoring God, and the expression of emotion through words I write to touch people and their lives for the better.

 Writing is love, abstract and concrete.

Loving words is what sets us apart from non-writers. The love of the artistic quality of words. It is the dream and the passion of creating something different, worthwhile, effective.

The love of writing drives us to do things we wouldn’t do otherwise.

Being a writer changes the way I look at myself, those around me, and the way we react to things around us. There are many traits that set us apart from the rest of the world, but none of them are bad, and even in each of us, these qualities are different. The love of words ties us together, but no two writers are the same. This makes words dynamic and amazing.