Why I Write, Personal Narrative Class #1

I write to get paid.

I wrote as a kid because all kids do, don’t they?

I wrote professionally because someone was willing to give me a job in the face of a complete lack of experience. They liked my enthusiasm.

2008 happened.

I still write.

I write for one of the last standing print venues. I look around at the digital world and don’t feel like learning a new methodology.

I write my blog to keep from going bat shit crazy.

Afterword

An exercise from the first class. [What Is Personal Narrative, Thoughts Before A Class]

We were given five minutes to answer the question Why do you write? I elected to leave the text as is. I could have added to it and tweaked it, but what came off the top of my head pretty much covered what I have to say. The bat shit crazy motivation, I have mentioned previously, below.

Listening to what other folks came up with, I realized that I don’t write. Not in the creative, story-telling sense. I record. I ask people questions and then organize the information. Perhaps this is why fiction is such a befuddlement to me.

[I’m Baaaaaack] 2013

[Bright-Eyed, Bushy-Tailed, & Back to Blogging] 2018

[State of the Blog: A Marketing Haiku] 2019

More about writing, [My Origin Story] 2014

Onwards!
Katherine