I don’t actually want you to answer this question here, on my blog. I don’t need to know your answer to this question – but you need to know your answer.

Are you writing to find readers who will enjoy what you have written?

Or are you writing to sell books and make money?

These two reasons are not the only two that spur people on to write a book or a short story or a poem – but they’re usually the two that come up most often when writers consider why they write.

Neither are they mutually exclusive of each other. You might be writing for both reasons – to find readers who will then buy your book so you can make money. That’s okay, too.

I’m not trying to make any judgements here. What I want to say is that, if you are honest with yourself as to