User blog:Forestpaw13/Community Activity - Monthly Prompt 1

Hey, guys... I've come up with an idea. What if, once a month, I posted a prompt (anything, really), and you would have to respond to it in writing?

It could be one word. It could be a report (like a paragraph). It could be what you think the definition of something is. It could be a review of a book we've all read, or a book you read and thought was good.

The rules are simple: just write.

I came up with this prompt because I thought it would be a good prompt to start off with. Something everybody can relate to. I'm hoping everybody has different responses (but it's okay if you have the same).

The prompt:

Why do you like to write?

I'll answer to get the conversation started...

Writing, in my opinion, is the place where what you say can't be judged. When you write, you are God. You have control. In writing, you can travel to the past or to the future or to an imaginary world. When you travel to an imaginary world, you travel to somebody else's mind. Writing is revolutionary. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) was a revolutionary book against slavery, and while she lived in the north, the novel made some valid arguments. Writing is not all fact. But it is discovery. Some people, the true writers, can only express themselves through the pen, just like some artists can only express themselves through the brush. Writing is art, the perfect combination of words to create an masterpiece. This is why I love writing. It is one of the places where words come together to create revolutionary, moving masterpieces.
 * I love to write because I can express my thoughts in the simplest way possible. It's the one place I can relax my mind and pour out my imagination.

Your turn. When the past calls,  ignore him.  He has nothing new to say. 23:52, June 7, 2011 (UTC)