Essays: Why we write 168 Articles

by Brittany Gibson

~Thin blades of grass tickle the arch of my bare foot. The sensual and warm sun toasts my perspiring skin. A cool breeze lifts my thoughts completely from a tired and overworked mind. From a short distance I can hear the r...read more

by maddie rose

Even If I Am Not Hemingway On my laptop computer, taped to the side of my keyboard, I keep a quote, "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." Hemingway. I find this true, I am...read more

by Chained Voice

Why do I write? For freedom, to give proof I have a mind, to live, to breath, to get out the words I would not dare say. The "voices" in my head write for me, it feels like I'm going to die when don't write there stories d...read more

by Tricia Lye

Why we write I see the world through the eyes of people who immortalize their most precious moments or paint a favorite place with deft strokes of the written word. I feel the poets pulse of vengeful anger and agony ...read more

by Jane Doe Chronicles

Writing according to this writer is more than the elements of grammar, style, editing and education. The art of writing and its disciplines have changed dramatically with the advent of Cable TV versus the Networks, and the...read more

by Cyn Bagley

My cell phone clutched in my hand, I looked unseeingly out the skylight, which was covered by the gray icy fingers of rain. I shivered as I spoke into the phone. "I am flabbergasted," I said when I reached my friend's a...read more

by Megan Risley

I feel like I should apologize... It has come to my attention that I can be offensive. Which got me thinking...why do I write the way I do? Sometimes it's because I mishear a song lyric and turn it into a winding, post-...read more

by Tellula Jane

Why I write? That question always bothered me. Do we as writers have to have a reason? Was it a verification of purpose to prove that we weren't just wasting my time? No sense in getting philosophical I suppose. Honest...read more

by Isaiah Paul

Writers are addicts. We are addicted to our own words. Forget all the hype about self- expression and creativity; we write because we want to read what we write. It doesn't really matter if others read our work or not; ...read more

by Shelly Payne

My all-time favorite quote about writing is this one: "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterward." -Robert A. Heinlein I think that this quote applies...read more

by Geoff Weed

Why, exactly, do we write? There are few questions more human, less answerable, and larger in scope. First of all, assuming "we" refers to writers generally, not just to this article's author and readers, the question it...read more

by Erin Lee

Ever have one of those days where it feels like everything you do is wrong? Or rather, that you're unable to do anything right? It happens to me on occasion... normally I can feel it coming on. Supreme feelings of inad...read more

by Kari Birchler

Launching Out I see myself stacked upon phone books, arm pits scarcely level with the table top, a sheet of yellow construction paper before me and a freshly sharpened pencil clutched in my fingers, ready to scrawl out ...read more

by Charles Martinez

How to plan and create your pictorial essay? Many writers who are amateurs to writing field or career are struggling on how to start with their writing an essay. It is important that we plan first before creating a pictori...read more

by Calandra Jones

I put my thoughts into you everyday, I've cried a river from page to page. To be or not to be is an understatement, because you wouldn't of had it any other way. I've dreamed in you, to be the best mother I could be...read more

by B. W. Follett

She held the pages loosely in her fingers. I watched as her eyes moved left to right and rapidly down the page. A smile crinkled at the corners of her mouth. I knew she had reached the sentence I had agonized ov...read more

by Francis Flaherty

I've been sitting here for some time now. Wondering, considering, imagining how to begin. It's something that most writers feel, the nervousness associated with a blank page, the feeling that the first sentences are the ha...read more

by Elsie Melton

Writing: Our Creative Minds Coming to Life Unblocking the mind, listening to the sounds of ones heart, the whispers of the mind, the meaning of the soul, opening the blinders from ones' eyes are the abilities to write....read more

by Patrick Rumsey

Why do we write? I write for the same reason that I breathe oxygen. It is a pure necessity. The ability to create substance, to convey ideas and concepts regarding anything imaginable, this is only one of an infin...read more

by Jeannie B.

To my imaginary readers, Let me tell you about where I live. I live in the ghetto. Yes, the ghetto. Imagine a place where bass bumping and yelling go on until 3:00 in the morning. It's a neighborhood where everyone sit...read more