A Strange Breed, Are We Writers
And Why That’s a Very Good Thing

Thin-skinned, overly-sensitive, empathetic, brave, frightened, insecure, self-confident — name any pair of contradicting adjectives, and that’s who we are as writers.
People often ask (far too often, in my opinion) in Facebook writing groups, “Why do you write?” There are several variations on this theme — “What’s your motivation…