"Choose" is definitely an odd word choice. There is no choice for me. I write because I feel better when I get the stories out of my head. I also write because I want to quit my day job. I write because I want to read stories with not-white not-straight not-cis not-men going on great adventures, falling in love and having happy endings and that's hard to find. I write because I want to change the world. I write to understand the world and my place in it. I write to make people laugh and think and occasionally cringe and ponder what they do / think / believe.
I write because I write. I wouldn't be me if I weren't a writer. My two year battle with writer's block taught me that a non-writing me is a very unhappy person.
I will confess I finished writing a passage and then pumped my fist and said out loud "This is good,"
That feeling is the best isn't it? I had the opposite one yesterday during my editing efforts. Read over three chapters of the current novel and cringed because they were clunky, ineffective, distancing and just plain bad. So I'm redrafting those three chapters. I can't have my big climax to the trilogy reading that poorly. *shudders* At least the first of the redrafted chapters was a ton better.
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Date: 2015-08-21 02:53 pm (UTC)I write because I write. I wouldn't be me if I weren't a writer. My two year battle with writer's block taught me that a non-writing me is a very unhappy person.
I will confess I finished writing a passage and then pumped my fist and said out loud "This is good,"
That feeling is the best isn't it? I had the opposite one yesterday during my editing efforts. Read over three chapters of the current novel and cringed because they were clunky, ineffective, distancing and just plain bad. So I'm redrafting those three chapters. I can't have my big climax to the trilogy reading that poorly. *shudders* At least the first of the redrafted chapters was a ton better.
Good luck with your writing this week!