It’s what I do. It’s who I am. It’s the thing that jolts me awake, when a story doesn’t know what time it is – it just knows that it needs to get out there.
It’s what I want to do. It’s who I want to be. It’s the thing that I’d like to do in the real time of the day, not just in little pockets of time that I scatter around like chicken feed.
It’s something I’d like to get paid for doing. That way, when people say, “What do you do for a living?” I could respond, “I’m a writer,” without feeling the urge to attach a disclaimer.
But it is what I do for a living, at least for the part of living that matters. The part that doesn’t have a price tag attached to it.
I write to vent. I write to create. I write to love. I write to mend. I write to connect.
I write because I want to write. I write, because I want to live in a world where we get to do the thing that we love the most, because a world full of people doing what they love has got to be a better world than the one we have. It’s the world we could have.
I’m linking up with Lisa-Jo Baker – what does your five-minute Friday look like?
M. Suzanne Terry 