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TO KNOW WHAT WRITING CAN DO TO YOU, WRITE.
Why I Write, and You Should consider Too
The process of writing fulfills the reader next and the author first. Why is it such a powerful activity?
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
— Ernest Hemingway
How to get to that stage where a writer can bleed?
The Old Man and the Sea left such an impeccable mark in me as a young reader. I read and re-read it and remember falling in love with the simplicity of the language and the elegance of the story.
Last Thanksgiving vacation, my husband and I visited Key West, Florida. I was 30 years but as we walked around Hemingway’s home, now a museum, I relived the periods when I read those books — The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, etc. I felt proud, powerful, grateful, and awakened.
Good writing makes you feel grateful for having read it. Grateful, because it connects, enlivens, raises something deep inside you. A connection from within yourself to the universal Truth.
I will share with you why I like to write. Writing gives me a multitude of benefits. Like any other skill, it can be honed…
