I think it's human nature for everyone to want to be remembered when they are no longer around. As writers, we hope that at least one of our writings continues on, and maybe someday even becomes one of those classics that our English teacher required us to read. (However, there are those writers/readers like me that still love a good classic from the likes of Whitman, Shakespeare and Twain). OK, well, they're my favorites. And every year, around this time of year, I still read "A Christmas Carol" (as well as watch the oldest black and white version of the movie, and the 1999 that had Patrick Stewart as Scrooge) but I digress ... back to legacy writing.
Legacy writing, as I am using it, means to write something that will be remembered. It does not have to be someone's biography or memoirs, but something that comes from within. I hope that even when I pass, someone will still want to read something that I wrote. It doesn't have to be my book "Fractured Tears: A Struggle for Justice" which is a fictionalized-version of my experience with domestic violence and the justice system. I hope that any thing I write would be remembered, even if it's just one of my shortest poems.
I write what is within me, and there are a lot of characters who are inside my head ... and I give them life on paper.
Of course, I hope I am not only remembered as a writer, but as a person, and the kind of person that I am.
If you had to pick one of your works that you write that could eventually be considered a "classic" what would it be? Also, what is your favorite classic? And least favorite? I'd like to hear from. You can email me, retweet this post, share it on Facebook, Google or Pinterest.
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