What is it that drives us to create: Charles Assisi asks, in Life Hacks

Joy, self-discovery, exploration are obvious answers. In a world of readymade oblivion, endless ease, the creative act is also a necessary gesture of defiance.

There’s a question I am asked fairly often, by friends and even family: Why do I write?

It is difficult to explain the “writer’s high”, if I may call it that. As I set out on this task, my screen stares back at me, blank but for the blink of the cursor. It will start to fill with ideas, if I begin to write something coherent. And then those ideas will be beaten into shape.

I will see inconsistences and