This originally went live on April 28th, 2014.  Couldn’t pass this one up when I stumbled onto it.  It was actually the beginning of a series and I looked into each of my reasons throughout the week.  This was back when I was doing lengthy themes.

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We see and hear this question a lot: Why do you write?

The funny thing is that I’ve seen some people answer this question differently every time it’s asked.  Typically, this is part of an interview, so we feel like there’s limited space to answer.  Maybe that’s why an author plunges their hand into the bag of ‘why’ and pulls only one of the reason out.  It’s unfortunate because an author who answers ‘I do it for the love of words’ one time and says ‘to pay the bills’ a few months later can get labeled as a hypocrite.  Then…