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Writing:Why For Me It’s Become Singing With a Pen

Posted by: Chrinda Jones    Tags:  indie authorship, Julianna Baggott, Why do people write, writing, writing motivation    Posted date:  December 4, 2013  |  906 Comments


A month ago, I read an interesting post by Julianna Baggott, entitled ‘Do You Want to Write or Do You Want to Be a Writer?’ Up until that point I had never thought about doing or being one or the other. I had always thought of the two as joined at the hip, since a person can’t technically practice one without then being the other. I won’t bore you with an ‘if this, then that’ scenario, but I will say that the article did get me to pondering the motivations behind why I write. Fairly quickly I made a short list of reasons that don’t motivate my writing. Since creating this list...

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