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Because you have a new idea and it’s worth exploring.
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Because if you don’t, you’ll never escape the boring 9-5 job you hate.
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Because you know you have what it takes to get produced/published, but you’ll never fully develop your talent without practice.
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Because you need a bigger portfolio, damn it.
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Because even if your worst fear is right and that idea in your head turns out to be utter shit once you get it down on paper, at least you’ll have gotten that idea out of the way and made room for the next one.
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Because it doesn’t matter if your mom thinks you’d be better off going to law school.
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Because even though you hate it, you love it.
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Because it’s a chance to live a second life, and a third, and a fourth.
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Because your jokes are way funnier when you get to rewrite them multiple times.
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Because you’ll feel better about yourself than you would if you lost yet another night to Friends reruns.
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Because it lets you be an evil super-villain without any consequences.
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Because even if your story is as old as the hero’s journey itself, no one’s ever told it with your unique voice, viewpoint, and vision.
April 7, 2014
Quote of the Day: Doris Lessing
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn’t care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can’t be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
September 17, 2013
35 Reasons to Write (or, Why We Do What We Do)
Every day I post a new quote about writing. The quotes come from famous screenwriters, novelists, poets, and each writer has different ideas about the craft of writing. But there’s one thing that they all agree upon: Writing is hard work.
No one gets into this gig because they think it will be an easy way to turn a quick buck (or if they do think that, they’re quickly corrected.) So why do we write? What could possibly possess us to sit down in front of our laptops or notepads and suffer day after day?
There’s no single reason, and your reason might change from project to project. Whatever you’re working on today, if you’re having trouble getting motivated, here are just a few reasons to push forward.
Reasons to Write
- Because someone’s paying you to
- Because no one has paid you to yet, and you’d like that to change
- To get better at it
- To share your story
- To exorcise your demons
- To express an opinion
- To prove something to yourself
- To explore a new idea
- To see what you’re capable of
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