Write your story.

Write because you have no choice: there is something spewing f

orth and it has no other way to go but out. Write because you have to. Really: w
rite because it is your livelihood, material or otherwise. Write because you hav
e an assignment. Write because there is no alternative.
Write because you have a purpose. Whether that purpose is to write, to write som
ething specific, or to achieve some other purpose which can be achieved by writi
ng.
Write because you have a deadline. Write because time is pushing you, because yo
u are out of time, because you have all the time in the world.
Write because you have a memory. Because you want to remember. Write to photogra
ph a moment, to add color to a picture, to effect a feeling.
Write because you have an agenda. Write because you have facts, because you need
facts, because you want to disinform. Write propaganda.
Write words; write sentences, poems, signs, directions, lists, signatures, plays
, speeches, essays, prcis; novels, treatises, encyclopedias, screenplays, dictiona
ries, commercials. Write blog posts, graffiti, fiction, informed and insightful
comments, and trolls.
Write because you cant sing. Write because you cant act. Write because you want to bec
ome a writer. Write because you are a writer. Write because you want to become a
film director, critic, editor, screenwriter, speechwriter, professor, researche
r, historian.
Write because no one else can do what you can. Write because everyone else is do
ing it. Write because one day you will die and will no longer be able to do it.
Write because it is the only way people can remember your way of thinking after
you are dead and gone.
Write because you have a point to make, a target to reach or hit. Write because
you lack an aim, write to find an objective. Write your journey, write to find y
our destination. Free-write, write stream of consciousness, write beat, write ne
at. Write concisely, write profusely; write few words, write many words. Write i
t all.
Write what you feel, what you see, what you hear, what you smell. Write the mind
of others, write your imagination, write worlds unknown. Write to make what doe
s not yet exist, write the unutterable.
Write to discover yourself. Write to describe the journey. Write to change, writ
e to learn, write to measure the distance between youth and wisdom. Write to dis
cern.
Write to play. Write to entertain. Write to disgust, to discuss, to disarray. Wr
ite order, and write orders. Write sequences. Write to bring together. Write to
build. Write instructions, and write instruction.
Write a joke. Write to laugh. Write to contemplate, to visualize, to illuminate.
Write to relax. Write to amuse yourself; write to amaze others. Write to embara
ss other forms of communications.
Write to keep things alive; let language, ideas, verbs and nouns live for one mo
re writing. Write because you were here.
Write because you cant stop writing. Write because you are blocked. Write because t
here is nothing but that stupid window through which you can only see things to
write about. Write because others will think you are cool.
Write to get laid. Write because you have never heard of anyone getting laid bec
ause they wrote. Write your phone number. Write a note for a dalliance. Write fo
r a moonlight tryst. Write about love. Wrap a feeling in clothing made of words.
Write out of habit. Write out of bad form, out of virtue. Write a spoken portrai
t. Write a new way of being. Write a philosophy of life.
Write the news, write the comics. Write what you know, and what you dont know. Writ
e what you want to know. Write your questions. Write your wisdom, your divinity.
Write your ignorance, your disheveld dishonesty. Write your shame.
Write reality, the strangest fiction. Write all that is left unsaid. Write what
is left to say. Write what is needless to say. Write what is most urgent to keep
silent. Write a letter of recommendation, a review, a criticism, an elegy, a hy
mn. Write the painful knots that become stuck in the throat, write the nervous s
tomachs that find no relief. Write the desolation that strips a heart, the lonel
iness in a crowd, the light from a candle whose flame flutters in the changing w
ind and remains lit.
Write because you do not understand, write in order that you may understand. Wri
te to come to an understanding. Write to take a stand.
Write the darkness, write the depths, the heights, the births, the restless puni
shing road, the lightning, the waves, the beds, the roses, the dirt, the silk, t
he thread, the needles, the sword. Write the plan, the attack, the retreat, the
defense, the strategy, the conquest and the remains. Write the spoils and the sp
oiled. Write the languages foreign and familiar to every tongue.
Write the story. Just write. Write just what needs be written. Write what deserv
es to be read. Write for your contemporaries, write for one hundred years; write
for eternity. Write for yourself. Write for your readers. Write forever. Write
until your very fingers give out, the mouth is dry, the spirit broken, the money
spent, the whisky gone, the room empty, the novel over and done with, and your
lover out to get cigarettes. Write until there is no more ammo, and no more rein
forcements. Write until there is no more fuel, no more down on the pedal. Write
until there is no more write.
Write the end. Write what is hard. Write death. Write life. Write long. Write sh
ort.
Write.