The Forty-two Reasons I Write

There are often conflicting motivations for what a person does

Rowen Veratome
Age of Empathy
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7 min readMay 24, 2022

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I figured that any list of the reasons I write would be a long one. So, I went ahead and wrote it. Hopefully, the reason it has exactly forty-two items is obvious.

People often wonder who someone writes for. Do they write for themselves? For someone else? That question doesn’t have a…

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Rowen Veratome
Age of Empathy

They/them. Perpetual student. Recovering from PTSD. Writes philosophically, formally, poetically, playfully, politically, personally, with love, ad infinitum.