Why I Write Today
I am a writer because whenever something significant happens and whenever it doesn't, I itch to put it into words.
When I walk outside in the morning, I want to describe how the fingertips of air touch my skin. When I drive to work, I want to list all of the adjectives I can that describe the sound of my car -- the whir, the grumble, the sigh, the buzz of tires on asphalt.
When I talk with someone, I imagine the words being typed across a screen or written in a notebook. I imagine what that conversation would look like in the pages of a paperback, black type on rough vanilla pages.
I see my words popping up in speech bubbles, filling all the empty space between me and you.
I write because I am breathing, because I am living, because I am loving you and this is how we kiss.
1 comment:
I feel the exact same way, except using poems instead of just words. When going through my every day activities I always find a way to put what is going on in my surroundings into a poem. Bad or good, I feel like it should be expressed. I think that if everyone had this train of thought the world would be filled with wonderful ideas that goes through the minds of people in their every day life.
-Jessica Whitfield
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