What Good Are Our Memories If We Never Share Them?

Your first audience is always yourself. You write because it’s a good idea, because you’ve wanted to forever, because memory becomes more real when you are able to capture even the smallest piece of a story. You write because maybe there will be a reader or two. Maybe not. You write not to use your piece to get you anywhere, but because you’ve live... See more

People who write, professionally or not, always wonder who they’re writing for. Is there an audience? And how do you find them?

And words can change things: perceptions and feelings and what we believe.

Who we are is where we come from and what we’ve seen and what we’ve said. And what we continue to say. And for so many good reasons, it’s a good idea to write it all down. While you remember, and while you can. Life is always in the particular details, the details that only you actually know.

I’ve always believed as an ideology, as a religion, as an absolute truth, that we should, every single one of us, tell our own stories.