Writing Rant

A Story by Rachel

This is just a short personal piece about the beauty of writing and how it allows me to escape from the world and enter a place of fantasy.

They ask me why I write about darkness. And I ask myself why. It's not because I'm dark and twisted inside, well not totally. But because I find it easier and more interesting to write about the journey through the tunnel rather than the light shining at the end of it. I live a regular life that, as any normal person, has ups and downs. But no one wants to read about that. So when I write, I disconnect from my life and let my emotions unravel before me. I write things I didn't even think I could think of. I reread words and ask myself where it comes from, and I still don't know. Maybe it stems from all the twisted shows I watch on television as I watch them in awe wanting and aspiring to produce something so captivating in the future. I take a look around me and realize the world is changing, no one wants to hear about those mushy gushy stories anymore, everything is dark in a world that used to be light. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe that is what people are looking for and I'm deluding myself into believing that people are more interested in the unknown and evils because its the genre I'm used to writing in. What if I'm just afraid to leave my comfort zone and expand my horizons? I really don't know, and thats the beauty of writing, you can go anywhere with anything and make it into something. Writing lets me escape this reality and lets me enter a place where I am in control, where I decide the fate. People turn to writing for different reasons and each and every word exposed to the audience possess a different meaning. I don't know what it is that makes me love writing so much, whether it be because I finally think I found something I'm decent at and love to do, or because it gives me a place to escape to. I don't need to have a reason though, I get to have any reason I want to, I get to be whoever I want to be when I write and it's just this amazing feeling. No matter where I go, or no matter who I end up to be, I will always have this.