Why we write
I haven’t done one of these in a long time. Just a simple blog post without hours of research, you know, the kind of stuff I actually started blogging for. Well, technically, I started blogging as some sort of retroactive justification of buying my first laptop back in 2009 , but that’s beside the point. Either way, over these last few months, as I’ve been dealing with health issues, a protracted recovery, the year end at work and on-and off bouts of writer’s block, my mind has always come back to the same question: Why? Why do so many of us like to write? For me personally, the answer is pretty straightforward: I simply like writing and it’s never been easier to publish your musings. But the question is bigger. There seems to be a never-ending stream of aspiring writers, even in this age of video and that laziest of mediums, the podcast. Why is that? In my opinion it’s because, at the end, we’re all story tellers. If you think about it, our entire culture has evolved around exchanging...