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(Note: Above website is so jammed today that it’s like the day Target started selling Missoni!)
Comment below about why you write before this Sunday night and be entered to win your choice of a book of quotes or bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick’s latest novel.
The New York Times is running a Twitter campaign based on the National Day on Writing.
State why you write in 140 characters or less and mark it with the hashtag “#whyiwrite”. Then upload your Tweet.
As Natalie Goldberg would say “Go!”.
I love this day, I have been helping my three year old (just turned 3) to write his letters. We’ve tried sentences to start a small book written by him to celebrate this day.
I write to make the liquid jumble of ideas in my head solidify. That way, I can get to know the characters who prance and dance through my mind. Hopefully, I will create a mountain town, a creek, a house, a nation, a cause for them to inhabit – allowing them to get on with their fictional real lives. It’s like coloring a page in a coloring book…as soon as you do it, the page is alive. That’s why I write.
I am not good at speaking, but writing stories opens a window in my heart where words swing dance into each other and fill me with joy, and sometimes great pride. Writing takes me to imaginary places where I surround myself with ordinary and extraordinary characters who offer intimate details of their humorous, eccentric, romantic, dramatic, and sometimes mundane lives. I write to learn moral lessons by placing characters in a variety of situations, and doing major soul searching while seeking resolutions. Flawed characters touch my heart by revealing that everyone, no matter how imperfect or seemingly insignificant, has something to offer in pretend worlds as well as in real life.
Love and fear pretzel-whipped in a torrential battle to claim irony over cynicism have forced me to pound furiously rationalization’s cheesy keyboard.
I write because I have to. It sounds cliche, but it’s true: if I don’t write – even if it’s just goofy stuff to make my friends laugh – then I start to feel angsty and out-of-sync. Writing helps me ‘balance’ in a sense, and if it proves enjoyable to someone else, so much the better
I like to write about my day in a journal…it reminds me to be grateful for the little things in life.
How funny that this is National Writing Day, as I’ve been working on getting my ducks in a row for NaNoWriMo…yes, I’m doing it this year!
Here’s what I’m saying in my Tweet: I write because the story inside me is dying to get out.
That is really true, but it’s more complicated than that. I write because I feel like if I don’t, I’ll be giving up on the one thing I have always wanted to do. Even if it’s just writing book reviews or writing in my journal, I love to write!
Thanks for the giveaway, Stephanie, and for recognizing writers of all types.
I write because I can.