Ugh! I got about 4 hours of sleep today and now I'm working a graveyard shift...Don't really have much to talk about other than how, when you're tired, it seems like the things you do most naturally (like writing) become so tedious and awkward. I would have to say being tired is the hardest hurdle to get over for me when writing. What's yours?

 

I'm really awful at keeping up with a blog, so if I don't write for weeks at a time, that's why. I'm also bad at first posts for blogs, because I never know what to say. I'm a writer, about to turn 30 in a few days, and I focus on poetry and sci-fi/fantasy fiction. I haven't been active on WDC very long, but I like it so far. It gives me a place to post and get feedback for my work, and I have met some very nice people along with way.

I guess I could talk about why I write. Well, the answer is simple -- I can't help it. Writing, and all the other creative things I do, for that matter, is a compulsion. I have been creating things for as long as I can remember, and I just don't feel like myself if I'm not doing it. When I have ideas, they wriggle around in my head and keep pushing me to do something about them. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're bad, but quality is not the point. A lot of the things on my portfolio are contest entries, but I have also started adding writing I just do just because.

I don't think my impetus is much different from any writer's. We write because that's what we do.

Anyway, I would love to hear from other writers and will post again...sometime...