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Joywriter's Manifesto
There are many reason's for writing. Among them informing, communicating, relating and recreation. But Joywriters know that �reasons� for writing are simply a veneer of respectability for an activity that has all the attributes of addiction.
Joywriters know that those who
do not write for the simple joy of it are just text drudges for the status
quo. They think they have gained the world, but they have lost their
soul.
Joywriters know that you must
lose yourself to find yourself. You must let go and fall into the dream
until you become the dream. And then you will wake to
yourself.
Joywriters know that writing is
not just a subject-object action. It is an I-Thou relationship. Writing is
as much done to the writer as done by them.
Joywriters know that writing is
transforming. It performs subtle alterations of attitude and viewpoint
which writers for �reasons� often find--if they recognize them at
all--disturbing if not downright objectionable. While Joywriters crave and
eagerly search for these self-creating conversions.
Joywriters write to transcend
the self. And they know that when you write for the joy of it, writing is
the reason.
� 1998 & 2004 by Joy
Renee Davis