Why Do You Write?

Everyone has a different reasons for writing, I shared a few in my first blog post when I said what it was to be a writer. 

Some write because they are naturally gifted, they are creative, and they have a story to tell. 

Others write because they couldn't imagine life doing anything else, or imagine even getting through life without writing it all down. 

My motivations have changed throughout the years. I started writing a diary when I was a child because I am an extremely sentimental person, I wanted something I could look back on when I was an adult and remember all of those memories of my childhood. Then my teens hit and I wasn't a normal happy child anymore, I had depression, I had to deal with a very close family member dying, and I was bullied. Poetry became my new best friend. I poured my heart into all sorts of poetry, any lines that I felt were right; I never showed to anyone - to this day they sit in several notebooks scattered in my belongings gathering dust, they were never written for anyone, they were written out of a need. Writing became my ultimate coping mechanism and whenever anything happened, my pen went to paper and I wrote until I didn't hurt anymore. Next came a blog, I feel as though many writers can say that they wrote a blog at some point in their life - I happen to be re-visiting that particular extra-curricular activity now. I began an editing company and helped other authors with their work for a year or so before another personal tragedy hit and I was no longer able to provide this service. A few years went by when I slipped into my old routine of writing poetry to help me cope with my reality. I then met someone who changed my life completely and I got myself back to where I should have been years ago, I started the Open University course and here I am today, writing out of pure enjoyment and nothing more. 

Motivations change for everything that you do, some may not be the best motivations such as using poetry to escape what was actually happening in my life, that isn't necessarily the way that I should have dealt with that, but it is the way that I did and nothing I can do now will ever change that. Now, all I can is make sure my motivations are pure. My course is helping me see the error in my writing ways and I am beginning to get better, and with more help I know that I can be great. 

Keep on struggling, it will be worth it in the end. 

Kay x