All great reasons but I think you forgot one: write for yourself.

·Feb 16

All great reasons but I think you forgot one: write for yourself. Be selfish as a writer. Not everything should be outwards-looking but inwards-searching. 😊

In other words, I write because I want to become wiser. I write because I want to improve on my skill as a writer. I write because I hope that one day someone will be inspired by the things I write.

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London-based, Cuban writer. Author of “Cuban, Immigrant, and Londoner”, to be published by Austin Macauley. Has written for The Guardian and Prospect.