Getting It Off Your Chest

Why do we write? It's one of those questions where you may get a lot of similar answers from people, but you will also keep finding new responses. Ultimately, it's a personal decision that has a personal answer for every writer. And more than that, different things that we write may be done for different reasons. 

One reason that people say is that they needed to get something off their chest. Writing is an amazing phenomenon; once you record your thoughts, you don't need to remember them anymore. So when we have those thoughts that swirl around our heads and plague our minds, writing them down can be a way to get them out. When you've been keeping something to yourself and you feel that burning need to tell somebody, you can write it down and get it off your chest while still technically keeping it to yourself.