This is my second Thursday’s Children post. Today, I’m talking about the main inspiration behind my writing.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been having a Dark Night of the Soul these last few days. First I felt overwhelmed by how much work I had to do, then I found out I had some serious revisions ahead of me that are going to take a lot longer than I had foreseen. I thought the book was in a certain place, but it turns out I was overestimating how ready it was to be sent out into the world. Suffice it to say, I’m bummed about that.<\/p>\n

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People say writers often go through the 5 stages of depression when they receive feedback, and I think that might be true. However, there are a ton of articles about writers and depression out there (here<\/a> and\u00a0here<\/a> and here<\/a>, for example), so I don’t feel the need to go through that here. \u00a0What I want to think about isn’t the negative side of writing, but the incredibly POSITIVE<\/strong> side of it, b\/c I think we’ve all had enough sadness this past week.<\/p>\n

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My friend Juliana L. Brandt<\/a> asked me the other day (in the midst of a lot of whining on my part) why I write.\u00a0I was caught off guard by the question.\u00a0Isn’t it obvious?<\/em> I thought at first. It’s because…<\/em>but then I didn’t really have an answer.<\/p>\n

So I forced myself to figure out what it was, and then I wrote it down.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t just that I loved “creating,” although I do (part of my answer was that I love the craft. Pushing a sentence to its limits, even if it sometimes breaks. I think there’s something magical there, something worth fighting for.
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\nBut the bulk, the heart of the reason I write,\u00a0is this:<\/p>\n

I have a lot of friends and family that care about me, but I still feel alone sometimes. Writing helps me feel connected. It helps me feel like I\u2019m part of a larger conversation, like I\u2019m being heard and also hearing others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that can be summed up even more succinctly, I think, into something like:<\/p>\n

I write because I want to connect with people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m still not out of the post-feedback doldrums (hell, I haven’t even started revising yet), but I AM looking at my book with a renewed sense of purpose, which in turn has helped me reexamine what it is I’m trying to communicate with \u00a0my book. I’m happy about that.<\/p>\n

So what about you? Why do you write? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Please let me know in the comments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, and guys? Thanks for listening. Love ya.<\/p>\n

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