Writing is cathartic. Once I get on a roll it takes over my life. The characters come to life and tell me where they want to go. I am mesmerized by scenery and fascinated by the ways brilliant authors string together extraordinary images with words. I want people to be moved by my words – moved to tears, moved to laugh, moved to anger, moved to action. Simply moved.
Writing is creating art by manipulating words. It isn’t that I have something to say, it isn’t that I want to become a famous author. I write because I love the process of creating. I write because characters, conflicts, worlds, and images, live in my mind and demand to be shared. In the words of the Argentinean Author Mempo Giardinelli, “I don’t write to be happy or to receive any sort of satisfaction, I write because I have to, because for me writing is like breathing.â€