Why Write

“I’m not writing as someone who has it all figured out. I’m writing as someone trying to figure it out, just like you. The truth is, life is one long experience of a million lessons. And nobody has it all figured out…We’re all constant works in progress at every level of success…And this is all okay. Because life isn’t about perfection. It’s about direction!…I’m not always writing about topics I’ve mastered — but ideals I’m working toward. Some days I get close, and other days I fall way short. And maybe that’s the most valuable thing I can share: not perfect examples, but honest ones. Because we’re all trying to build something better while being perfectly imperfect humans.” -Justin Welsh

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.” -George Orwell, Why I Write

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.” -Joss Whedon

“We cannot treat other people as if they’re final drafts while expecting people to look at us as if we’re rough drafts. Everybody’s a rough draft. We’re all writing ourselves in real time…All of our erasers are chewed up, we’re trying to figure it out, make ourselves and discover ourselves in real time. And that is an impossible thing to do. But that’s the thing that makes us human. -Lee Edward Colston

“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” -Flannery O’Connor

No one has it all figured out.

But perhaps writing down your thoughts, hopes, dreams, etc…and having the courage to share those with others is a step in the right direction. For you and your reader.

We’re all a work in process. We’re all rough drafts. We’re all constantly messing up.

That’s okay.

Keep going. Keep dreaming. Keep learning. Keep writing. Keep sharing.