1. To release their often complex and convoluted thoughts, providing an effective source of grounding and stress release, taking a greater burden off of their shoulders
2. To speak to an audience — to get something off their chest
3. To create and maintain relationships with people around the world
4. To share their lives, their travel, their experiences
5. To help readers by educating or inspiring an audience to develop any number of greater understanding, skills, or expertise in any given topic from baking to mountain climbing to puppy training or parenting
6. To find rest and repose amidst an incredibly busy and bustling life — an oasis found through the writing process and its fruition
7. To find themselves…. out of a search through hundreds of thousands of letters, words, and phrases linked together by only one unique thread of commonality, that which is the writer who steps forward with pride and craftsmanship
