Why write? 

     I want you to write.

     Why write? There are many reasons why you should write. You hear from your teachers and your parents that you have to be able to write in order to have a good education. Writing will help you get a good job, they say. They are correct. Writing is one of the most important things you can learn.

     But there are other reasons to write. I write for a living. I am a journalist. But my favorite reason to write is that writing is an act of creation. With writing you can create entire worlds. What you imagine, you can create on a piece of paper, on a computer screen.

     I write because I love stories. I make up stories and tell them to you. And when I do that, my act of creating becomes an act of sharing. What good are stories if you can’t share them? If you like my stories, that makes me happy, because I made you feel better.

     So I have three payoffs for writing a story.

     1. I created a world that didn’t exist until I put it into words.

     2. I shared this world, my story, with you.

     3. I made you feel better.

     I encourage you to write. I want you to create your own world. And I want you to share that world with somebody. If you want, you can share it with me.

     I think it will make you feel better.

David Madrid

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