When did you decided to write and when did you give it up? Was it from lack of confidence? A lack of time? Why, when you loved your childhood diary and filled notebooks with quotes and poems, did you stop? Writing is the one art form that requires the most basic of resources- paper and a pencil. Think of the importance of a sheet of paper in a prison or a piece of birch bark scratched upon in a Gulag in Siberia. This is our heritage as writers. What we write has meaning and purpose!
Remember that only you can tell your own story in words that reconstruct your life in a new way or in words that show why you are here on earth. Your writing may inspire a reader to face a difficult situation or bring a smile to her face. Readers want to learn how you or your character survived a divorce or managed a happy childhood in spite of a raging father. You are able to do this with your words.
We now participate in what the poet, Robert Bly once called the "Sibling Society". It is a world where we are all equal and expertise is not given its great importance. This has the negative effects we see in the world of politics and of course,we wouldn't want our doctors to be without training and knowledge. Yet, this equality opens doors to writers and artists who once may have been called outsiders without access to the traditional systems of education.
We can pursue our dreams of writing. We can learn by doing, by participating in workshops, or following a more traditional path of education. Whichever way we choose we are writers!
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