the why in writing

Writing is a great way to excavate an emotional reaction and find the why behind it.

Writing is prayer, spirituality, self-discovery, communication, therapy, connection.

Making space for writing is making space for you.

What Writing Can Help Us Do: Name our experience so we can more fully understand it. Give language to the future we want to create so it stops feeling vague and begins to seem achievable. Build a bridge (neural pathways) between the now we’re experiencing and the future we’d like to create. Heal and engineer our own resilience from past experience.

a fabulous way to get unstuck in your life is to get writing.

writing is diagnostic.

You cannot write your words without living them. You cannot share your words without writing them.

A writer’s greatest responsibility is to his readers, to keep providing them with the best work that he is capable of turning out.

All novels, short stories, and plays, and most poems, are about human transformation. The subject of the novel is the human spirit and psyche—how the characters interact in their relationships with other souls and with the world in general.