Self-Injection

Why do we write?

why do we read?

Everybody has their own reasons In my case I read because it helps me escape from the world and its cruelty It takes me away from any problem I'm facing at the moment. The reason why I write is because that's is the easiest way I find to let others know how wonderful my imaginary world is. I can reach perfection with my imagination and writing is the best way to share it.

When you start writing it feels like the first day of school, you know you will be okay but still the scariness takes control over you. At least that is the way I feel when I'm about to start writing an essay. I always find it difficult to write what I think or how I feel about something because every time I reread my words I end up eventually shortening it out or changing some ideas. It's like I'm seeking for perfection but still can't find my way through there. Maybe the books I've read are the real causes of this feeling, you can't possibly feel satisfied with your description of love after you read Diana Gabaldon's Outlander or Nicholas Sparks' Dear John. That's how I'm influenced by what I read, even though I think a line about a specific theme is good, deep down I know that someone has written one better and has gone a step farther than I.

The books you read not only influences your opinion about certain subjects but it can gets to the point that It will change your way of thinking. Writing gives you the power to control other people's mind in some way, Its like a football game in which the writer is playing attack and the reader is defending. As a writer you have to find your means to penetrate your ideas into the readers mind, and to do so you need to know your audience. It is essential for a writer to determine exactly to what type of audience his book appeals.

It's not easy to write everybody knows that, the difference between a person who finds it arduous and painful and someone who enjoys doing it, is in the effort. If you are willing to be successful you have to try hard and do your best, go beyond your limits or what you've set as your limit, surpass it it.

" In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself..."

-Alfred Kazin

People usually write about what they know and think, they express their opinion through writing but sometimes you only get to know how you really feel about something after you have written about it. And that's how writing helps you get to know yourself. It's really hard to put our feeling and ideas in words, because most of the times our ideas and feelings are not so lucid. Practicing your writing and reading other people's writing until you feel comfortable sharing your feelings is the right path to take.


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"You are what you read...You only read what interests you and what interests you is what makes you who you are"

-Joao Ballesteros