Write for Your Life

I think we could argue that a lot of what winds up online is freewriting, given its stream of consciousness and disregard for rereading and revision.

The ritualistic turning away from the written word too often begins in the classroom.

everyone has a voice.

I have to write to discover what I am doing. —Flannery O’Connor

“I hope I shall be able to confide in you completely, as I have never been able to do in anyone before, and I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me.”

“We’re not just talking about writing,” says Eidman-Aadahl. “It’s about someone caring what you’re talking about, someone telling you you have something to say that’s worth hearing.”

If you could look down right now and see words on paper, from anyone on earth or anyone who has left it, who would that be? And don’t you, as do I, wish that person had left such a thing behind? Doesn’t that argue for doing that yourself, no matter how terrifying or impossible writing may sometimes seem? It doesn’t really matter what you say. It ma

if you’ve gotten your own voice down on the page, you will read aloud and think: “Yep, that’s it. That’s me.”

it was possible to use words to describe the world so that the world seemed plausible.