Reasons to be a Writer--the Short List

Good and Bad Reasons to be a Writer--the abridged version

culled from 1,818 Ways to Write Better & Get Published

by Scott Edelstein

Good Reasons

1. To communicate to others your ideas, emotions, experiences, cares, needs, concerns, questions, and obsessions.
2. To grow emotionally, intellectually, psychologically, artistically, and/or spiritually; to help others to do the same.
3. To entertain yourself and/or others.
4. To leave your mark on the world.
5. To play with words, concepts, images, and meanings.
6. To provide catharsis--to enable what's inside of you
   to come out.
   
   

Bad Reasons

1. To hurt other people or take revenge on them.
2. To make, or attempt to make, other people miserable, envious, or unhappy.
3. To impress others with the fact that you're a writer.
4. To make yourself miserable. (If writing makes you miserable, don't be a writer!)

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