A decent number of summers ago I was asked a question in my first creative writing class at community college. The question: Why do you write? It’s a great question for writers old and young. There could be one thousand varying answers from a thousand different author’s voices. Some writers state that they have to write. It seems that to them writing is a compulsion. That’s fine for those word artists, but that’s not my story.

The widely read author Neil Gaiman has a good answer to the question. “I write to find out what I know,” he has stated before. I enjoy Gaiman’s notion on writing more than the response of writing feeling similar to a compulsion. Personally I don’t believe I write often enough. The compulsion doesn’t equal my story or blogs or stories. I am fine with this truth. I don’t desire the compulsion. No, what I…