Why I Write

The reason I'm writing this blogpost is because I was becoming more aware of why other authors---mostly on Amazon---were writing their stories.

Some of them, certainly, were writing in order to earn.  Sometimes writing is what someone feels he or she can do the best.  Sometimes they can only write.  Often they're inspired by other writers whose works they have read, and so on.

Others are fired by a need to support emerging lesbian, and more generally, LGBTQ young people, and give them models and instances of other teens and YA women struggling with the need to choose that lifestyle, or deal with the social problems accompanying their preferences.  Yet others want to recount their own stories, or stories of their close friends, which they think are going to be interesting or inspiring to readers.

Still others are still smarting under the hostility they felt from convention-bound parents, or other older adults who simply could not reconcile what they were seeing with how life used to be for them.  These older adults still see the new freedom to choose a respectful lifestyle as an affront to their religious views, or what they consider, for some reason, as right and proper.  Many citizens see the new laws as atrocious, shameful parodies of what legislation should be, and authors feel the need to respond to these feelings, or to support young people who struggle against members of society who harbor these feelings.  Of course, I feel the urge to do this as well, but I don't have the evangelical feelings to do this that some women have.  If challenged, I suppose, I might be provoked into lashing out, but that isn't me.

[To be continued...]