October 20 is 91探花鈥檚 91探花 Day on Writing. This year, we asked you to tell us why you write鈥攁nd you did. Twitter recorded more than 60,000 tweets with the hashtag #WhyIWrite, and Twitter wasn鈥檛 the only place where people shared why they love this art form. We posed the question to select 91探花 members, and these were among the responses:
聽I write because one day it will be the only proof that I existed.
鈥擲hekema H. Silveri
I’ve been writing since I was a kid鈥攂ecause it was fun and because I just HAD to. 聽I don’t mean that anyone聽told聽me I had to鈥擨 was itchy with poems and stories I needed to put down with pen on paper. Now I’m an adult and I still feel that way (and, believe it or not, I’m still mostly using pen and paper)!
鈥擬arilyn Singer
聽I write to make meaning and leaps into the known and unknown. I tell my students they鈥檙e sentence-makers on a mission with hope and for change.
鈥擱. Joseph Rodr铆guez
I write to organize my work life, to share information with others, to make sense of my experiences, to compensate for my aging memory, to immortalize a moment of wonder, to work through sorrow or pain, to connect with a friend, to share my love.
鈥擠ebi Goodman
聽I write to articulate my thinking about how children learn. I always discover new things when I write about the classroom.
鈥擣ranki Sibberson
I write because I get tired of staring in silence when inequities loom loudly and compound, giving massive voice to age-old and newborn injustices. Writing evokes more than any other thing a too often fought-for reality that I must struggle to preserve: that I too am human.
鈥擠avid E. Kirkland
I write because I want to tell funny stories that make people laugh. I also write because I love drawing the pictures that go with the words.
鈥擟ece Bell
And from a on the subject, a 6th grade student offers, 鈥淚 write because if I didn鈥檛, it would be like a sunrise with no sun.鈥�
Comment below to tell us why you write.