Comments on: Write Your Story Today–Write from the Heart

By: Renee cassese

Renee cassese — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:15:37 +0000

Writing memoir is both a joy and a struggle. The process of admitting those regrets you are ashamed of is the first big step. Putting them in print is a lesson in courage, as is that moment when you have to share with your writing group those events in your life you’d like to forget ever happened. But once you do that–you discover that everyone still likes and respects for who you are now. Once you do that you can move on to write the rest. And as always, the women in my group encourage me to do the thing I think I cannot do, but know I must.

By: Tina Haapala

Tina Haapala — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:41:05 +0000

It’s taken a while for me to realize that I am a writer. I kept getting in my own way for so long. There was always some kind of excuse. The days I ignore those excuses and Just Write are the most fulfilling. How great that there is a National Day on Writing to remind us all how important Writing is for our collective soul!

By: rzjackson

rzjackson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:43:47 +0000

Writing memoir and poetry based on personal and family stories have occupied my life for the past 3 years. Writing about past events, not necessarily painful ones, I find takes the energy off them so I can move on to other creative pursuits. I love it and am so happy to see a National Day on Writing to encourage everyone to pick up a pen.

By: Sharon Lippincott

Sharon Lippincott — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:35:52 +0000

Writing about my life has changed it for the better. My six-word memoir is “I live to write about life.” Continual writing, about my life and the process of writing is my enduring passion. I’m grateful for this national recognition and hope that it will encourage people to value the act of writing even more.

To paraphrase an old favorite melody:

I’d like to teach the world to WRITE
in perfect harmony.
I’d like to hold it in my arms,
and keep it company.

Let’s all get those fingers moving and submit a story.

By: Meredith Rutter

Meredith Rutter — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:51:18 +0000

I started writing memories two years and four months ago, and the process has been nothing but enjoyable. Frustrating at times, of course!, but always enlightening in some way or other. It’s a shame we (I include myself) don’t make it part of our personal entertainment space the way we do for television and reading, for instance. National Day on Writing may help bring this to mind for more people.