Manifesto or: why you should care about writing

"OK", I hear you ask, "Why write?".

Mostly, I like writing because it's fun.

Gathering nebulous strings of ideas and giving them concrete form through time and thought. Satisfaction when a description feels particularly imaginative, or as close to a perfect analogue of a concept in my head as I can get. A desire of structure for yourself, or to share with others. A growing corpus of who you are as a person unstressed by deadline or format. A solid thing to point at, to prove you can or prove you have. A textbook page in your image. A torrent of all the words you can think of to describe your current situation. A snapshot of a moment in time tweaked endlessly with a steady hand.

Black words on a white page.

A chance to punch walls and spit. A chance to lay across a leather chair and leisurely smoke a pipe. A chance to talk to old and new versions of yourself and others, as far from, or close to, a conversation as you'd like.

Mostly, I feel like you're supposed to write.

So I try to.

Anyway you don't have to write like a wanker it's just kinda fun sometimes innit. It's always depressing to let go of a perfect idea in your head, trading potential for smog-filled reality, but boy do I love gambling so here I am spinning the wheel.