My reason to write is to give the world a glimpse into the fantastic and wonderful realities I belong to. I think all great (and most not great, for that matter) fantasy is divinely inspired. I can’t say if I created these worlds or if God simply let me be a part of them, but I do know that there’s only one way that anyone else will get a chance to experience them!
I write so that the world I see when I close my eyes could maybe, even for just a minute, be seen by others. So that the characters I have grown up together with can meet new people and make new friends- Characters that for now live only in my heart. How heartbreaking would it have been if Bilbo or Gandalf had been chained up inside the mind of the brilliant Tolkien? But because he gave them life on the page, they have now befriended millions. What if Harry Potter stayed in the cupboard his whole life?
Sheth, Fisk, Andel, Pakk- The characters I know so well (though not so well that they never surprise me!) they are all waiting in my heart to take flight and find friends across the world.
That is my reason to write. What is yours?