OK, I have questions

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Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:49:52 +0000
Editing & Writing, St. Norbert College Publications, Uncategorized, Chronicle of Higher Education, voice, web, website, writing

After a week spent moving the summer issue of the magazine to print and the July edition of @St. Norbert to its editor, while also helping our team find the personable and unified voice we intend for our new website (a voice quite easy for me to analyze, develop and explain but that completely eludes me in my own work) I am now spending Saturday night on an article “just for fun” and asking myself:

Why is writing so hard?

Why do I keep doing it?

Why is it so ridiculously satisyfying when it starts going right?

Why does it take me, personally, so long to reach that stage?

Why, given all the above, am I now – for heaven’s sake! – writing about all that?

Oh well.

Actually, I do have a few answers, too:

Writing scratches that itch.

It feels great when you get to push the words around on the page and they all begin to click neatly into place.

Whether the experience was a fascinating interview, a great story bursting to be told or one of those flashes of insight that drop into your lap by act of sheer grace, writing about it ties things up in a neat bow and stores it up for late use,

As we learned at Mother’s knee, it is nice to be a good sharer.