The reason I write

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I write because it helps to crystallize my thinking, to focus and bring clarity. It helps to label emotions and motives. I write to express myself to others in a way that lasts beyond the words from my mouth. I write something because I want the recipient to keep what I have said and look at it again maybe at a time when they will be better able to process it. I write to attach words to a memory. I write to celebrate love, to inspire passion, to understand despair and to make sense of indifference. I write because it allows me to be intimate with someone without laying a finger on them.

I write to make an imprint on another person's heart

I write to leave my fingerprints in intimate places

I write so parts of me will outlive the breath in my body

I write because I love to expose myself with the written word