Richard Ford: "Clearly, many writers write for reasons other than a desire to produce great literature for others' benefit. They write for therapy. They write (queasily) to "express" themselves. They write to give organization to, or to escape from, their long, long days. They write for money, or because they are obsessive. They write as a shout for help, or as an act of familial revenge. La, la, la. There are a lot of reasons to write a lot. Sometimes it works out OK."
Why do writers write? I definitely write to express myself. As I worked on my digital timeline today I thought about middle school. Hoarded up in my dark dank room writing poems of angst on scraps of paper and kitty covered journals. I think that is where my true writing began. Where I really wrote in response to something that had happened. A shout for help. What are the reasons our children write? Can any professional paper really answer that question when everyone's answer is different. I'm finding a block in my inquiry into why we write from that perspective. Yet there are countless resources from writers and would be writers on why they write. The question may be: why should kids write? Maybe my young kids don't know why to write yet. My head is currently hitting the brick wall.
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