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I often wonder why I write. I’ve spent hours talking to friends, writers and non-writers about it. For the first 25 years of my life I was convinced that everybody was either writing or wanted to write a novel. Finally a woman I worked with told me in no uncertain terms that she had no such desire, which threw me utterly. I’d assumed she was writing in secret, as I was — pursuing a universal dirty habit that demanded solitude and a quiet place — when instead she was watching TV or out at the pub with friends: being social. Writing isn’t usually a social activity, except when you’re working on exercises together in a writers’ group — and even then you’ll find that you do most of your writing alone, in whatever space and time you can carve out for yourself.
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© 1998 Julia Casterton
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Casterton, J. (1998). Why Write?. In: Creative Writing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14679-6_1
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