A Writer's Drive

What drives a writer to be what they are? For most people...it's the money. The fame. Everyone wants to be rich and famous for their books. Very few actually become famous, like my friends Mr. Dickens, Mr. Poe, and even Mr. King. (Charles, Edgar Allen, and Stephan, for you non-writers.)

For others, it's being able to have the satisfaction of finishing something and haven't it be successful or even semi-successful.

But for me...it's the feeling. I love the rapid click of the keys as I pour out my heart onto a pixelated screen, watching the words appear. I like the swish of pencil lead brushing paper as letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, pages, chapters, books are made. Writing a book is a seemingly magical thing. In a book, anything can happen. Turtles can marry faeries. Vampires can fall in love with an unlikely person-a human. A seemingly normal man can control wind, fire, air, and water. Ghosts can haunt houses. Wizards can shoot lightning.

Anything can happen.

And don't get me wrong. I don't just write books and stories. I write poetry. Songs, music. I love to write. Anything and everything. Fantasy, sci-fi, realistic fiction, historic fiction, even.

A writer's drive...a good writer, anyway...is her heart. You can't write with your mind or with dollar signs in your eyes. You need to just let go as you write. Find the words you want inside yourself and let them flow onto the page. Sure, you need some thought in it. But...all you really need to be a good writer...is to feel.