Why do you write? For self-expression? To exercise your imagination? Because it’s therapeutic? Or just because you have to? I’ve often struggled with this question. Depending on the day, my answer can be very different. 

Author’s Promoter website decided to take on this age-old question and just published an interesting survey that asks one hundred writers why they do it. The results are kind of fun and worth checking out.

The following wonderful mini poem, “Dear Reader,” by Elliot Figman, from his book Big Spring, kind of says it all for many of us:

Dear Reader

It’s you

I’ve been waiting for