Comments on: Why Women Write: Part One of Two

By: Lucy Sheen aka 4gottenadoptee

Lucy Sheen aka 4gottenadoptee — Fri, 02 May 2014 07:04:43 +0000

I write because in the UK there aren’t too many people like me, British East Asian and a transracial adoptee, who do write. As a minority in the UK that is almost invisible culturally and still subject to racist abuse I want to add my experience, my British experience to the cultural landscape

By: Ceejae Devine

Ceejae Devine — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:57:59 +0000

I started writing to tell my oldest daughter about what was important to me because I traveled and realized there was a chance I might not return at some point. Then, an event occurred that I didn’t know what to do with, so I wrote a short story about it. I realized that there might be other young women who might be interested in what I had to share and started writing a book about my experiences, then my marriage fell apart. As I made decisions to do what I believed was right for me and my kids I began to become aware of events occurring that most of us call chance or luck and I’ve now written a memoir as I realized that life has forced me to challenge everything I believed. My WIP is with an editor and I’m looking for an agent.

By: Lyn G Farrell

Lyn G Farrell — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 11:31:22 +0000

I write for many reasons. I love stories. I love losing myself in a story, I love that feeling of ‘being there’. I want to create that for myself. In my first novel (almost finished) I regain the control I didn’t have as a child. I have needed, for so long, to say: when this happens to a child the CHILD wants to say this…
More generally I can dress my worlds up beautifully or bring them crashing down around all of our heads. I can make a vase speak or a person bark like a dog. I can live a hundred lives instead of just one. I personally find creative writing harder than anything I’ve done before (singing, academic study, teaching) and I often cry, swear, growl, even scream and abandon it temporarily. But the feeling of being even a little bit close to what I want to express feels so good. I hope that my writing is like a fruit, ripening. Right now my stories are still a bit hard and sharp, later I hope they will be soft and sweet and leave their flavour long after they are finished.

By: stephanie haggarty

stephanie haggarty — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 02:47:05 +0000

I write because I have this inside passion for it. I can’t really explain it, but their are times when I have all these stories in my head and I need to write them down.

By: sabina giri

sabina giri — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:20:23 +0000

I write because it is the way of revealing myself betterly. My pen is my best friend which enables me to feel free all the time. Whether i an happy or sad there might not be anyone with me to share so in this situation i use my pen to write. I write to express my feelings and emotions but i dont think it is necessary to be published. If we share something with people we do not tell everything but we reveal all the secrets in our writing. I feel calm and free with my pen that’s why i do not keep any secret. So that i love to write to be fresh, happy. Moreover the writing further helps to do our own reflection.

By: Susan O'Neill

Susan O'Neill — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 02:02:52 +0000

I write because I’m a frustrated would-be actress. There’s the exhibitionist piece, of course–looking to be noticed, perhaps to be loved. But more to the point, I slip inside other skins. My fiction is all about “becoming the other”–I take on an identity and run with it–but my reporting (weekly papers in New England, in the age of the dinosaurs) was also all about trying to see the world through someone else’s filter.

Now I’m putting out essays, and the occasional humor blog entry. It’s still entertainment. I dance, make you laugh, dazzle you with a quick dramatic monologue. It’s all theatre, but that doesn’t diminish its value, really. I am a lens on the world, and I’m waiting for your nod of recognition–ah, yes: I identify! Show me more!