Today is The National Day On Writing. No, really, it is. It was officially declared to be so by the Congress, so you know it's for real, and it's sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English. To mark the day, they have posed a question to the world, or at least the world of writers (that would be our world): Why Do You Write?
I love this question, and I love the answers it brings. We had a wonderful six-word memoir contest (inspired by the six-word memoir project at Smith Magazine) on this very subject, and I invite you all to answer it in a new form on She Writes today: tell us why you write in 140 characters or less. That way you can get in on the action (if you are a Twitter user) by tweeting your answer as well and marking it with the hashtag #whyiwrite. Our friends at the YA site Figment.com are participating, as is the The New York Times Learning Network and many others, so we will all be in very good company.
My answer?
Writing is my leap of faith in the face of impermanence and loss, my hope that it is possible to ease pain by speaking truth. #whyiwrite
What's yours?
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Comment by Kathy Radigan on October 20, 2011 at 8:04am
Comment by Veronica Young on October 20, 2011 at 8:03am Writing is my fun, happiness, laughter and love. Writing is the answer to all my problems—real and imagined.
Comment by Elizabeth Kolodziej on October 20, 2011 at 8:02am
Comment by Care Morency on October 20, 2011 at 8:00am I write because I have to.
Comment by Elaine Fields Smith on October 20, 2011 at 7:58am
Comment by Wendy Brown-Baez on October 20, 2011 at 7:57am
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