{"id":34125,"date":"2017-03-06T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=34125"},"modified":"2017-03-04T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T03:43:53","slug":"why-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2017\/03\/06\/why-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2017\/01\/09\/2017-ringing-in-some-changes-for-the-year-of-the-book\/bookswornthumb-php_2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33977\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33977 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BookSwornthumb.php_2.jpeg\" alt=\"bookswornthumb-php_2\" width=\"134\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a>Last week I heard an interview with a fellow NZ author on National Radio (our main public radio broadcaster) in which she was asked, &#8220;Why do you write.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her reply was indepth, thoughtful, and inspiring, but listening, I thought: &#8220;Well, why do <em>I<\/em> write?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer was really simple: &#8220;I write because I want to tell great stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33165\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/09\/15\/listening\/thornspell_handwritten-notes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33165\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33165\" class=\"wp-image-33165 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Thornspell_Handwritten-Notes.jpg\" alt=\"thornspell_handwritten-notes\" width=\"223\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Thornspell_Handwritten-Notes.jpg 223w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Thornspell_Handwritten-Notes-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why write?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Which made me think, &#8220;So what&#8217;s a great story then?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Probably there will be as many definitions as\u00a0 there are people, but for me a great story is one that:<\/p>\n<p>i) makes readers feel the way I do when I listen to Mozart, or any other great piece of music;<\/p>\n<p>ii) in some way manages to capture what NZ poet, Glenn Colquhoun, has called the <em>ache<\/em> of being alive and being human; and that<\/p>\n<p>iii) entertains, taking readers out of themselves for the time they are reading it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re a writer and would like to add a comment on why <em>you<\/em> write; or whatever your background, would like to share what makes a story great for you, then I would love to hear from you in the comments. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>And otherwise, enjoy the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I heard an interview with a fellow NZ author on National Radio (our main public radio broadcaster) in which she was asked, &#8220;Why do you write.&#8221; Her reply was indepth, thoughtful, and inspiring, but listening, I thought: &#8220;Well, why do I write?&#8221; The answer was really simple: &#8220;I write because I want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34129,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34125\/revisions\/34129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}