I write

I was feeling a little discouraged. I have poured countless hours and tons of research into my work, "Genna Oryn" and "Tidesong" in particular, and I was starting to feel as though it was all futile.

Pouring out my heart and soul. Filling page after page of detail, emotion, love and tragedy. Painting vivid pictures of a world unique and yet familiar, filling it with things that exist only in dreams and in the pages of the stories that I write.

A week of silence...
Two chapters released and no response...
Hard work, skipping out on movies and invitations to hind in the shadows and build...
Sometimes I start to feel like it is all for nothing, that my words go unheard, that I am wasting time, effort, and paper...
Why do I write? Why do I take the time to rip open my soul and pour out it's contents, to share every fantastic dream I have had with the entire world?
Why? Why? Why?

For me. For me, so that I can release all the demons that start to rise up within my head.

For that one person who is sitting alone, under a table, feeling like they are the only person in the world, wishing that there was someone, anyone who knew what Hell was like.

For that one person who needs a companion, even if it is just imagined.

I write for me.

But it is so much more then that! I share for the world. I share so that the world can cast off on an adventure filled with all the things that could never exist in this life. 
I share for the world so they can feel love and loss, heart break and healing, the joy of birth and the pain of death, all without ever having to bear the scars on their own!

I write because that is all I am, All I ever will be, and all I ever long to be.

I write. And through these words, thought it is true that they may never be seen, I will live!

I write so I may live.

Reviews

[R Smith]

i used to write in my room when i was young, i could have been out with friends and sometimes lovers but i listened to music and i wrote until life changed and got in my way and i became an adult even though i'd been one for more than 10 years, so till now my writing has been sparse and i sometimes wish i could be back in that room before life got in the way and just sit and write, i know you, i know what its like, now we write to live, thank you :)

[Kitalia Emme]

It is the greatest adventure know to man, to allow your imagination to flow unbridled through the pen and across the paper. Spilling forth the darkest and most treasured secrets of the human soul. Opening the gates of knowledge and ushering in new ideas. Taking the moments of twilight and spinning them into a yarn built from the scraps of our existence and weaving a new and fantastical world beyond the limited reaches of our realm. Birthing companions, lovers, friends, children, races, worlds and guiding them into a greater era.

I know that feeling of wanting to only write. :)