Why do I write?
Because writing is thinking made visible. Because these words should exist.
I write because I lost someone & I'm grieving. Because I'm heartbroken & healing. Because it's the deathversary of 2 of my cats & 1 of the lizards!
I write because my hypnotist isn't available & I needed to guide myself through the pain. Because my (love) life coach asked "was it true love or a trauma bond?" and I'm still figuring out the answer.
I write because I'm tired of crying. Because I'm a creative & this is how I metabolize what hurts.
Kafka said a book must be "the axe for the frozen sea within us." I'm not chasing immortality. I'm breaking the ice.
Maybe someone's having a shit day & my words help them breathe. Maybe an introvert feels less lonely because I named their experience.
Simone Weil said attention is the rarest form of generosity. Arthur Ashe said do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
Right now, I might be shaping someone's thoughts.
So I keep writing.
You know what...
*cracks open a beer, flicks the cap across the room*
...I'm dating a knight from Hell! Let's fuckin' go!
Wired to experience the world through words – talking to multilingual novelist, short story writer and memoirist Claire Polders
If you’ve read my memoir collection Not Quite Lost, you’ll know I am laughably inept at foreign…
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If you’ve read my memoir collection Not Quite Lost, you’ll know I am laughably inept at foreign languages. So I greatly admire people who can navigate a language that isn’t their inborn tongue. Esp…
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