Just a simple little question...

[jastius]

I write because there would be an incredible hole in my life if I didn't. Every so often my fingers just itch to satisfy their need to express something with language. I'll find myself muttering odd little snatches of doggerel verse, just the poems at first but if I don't head off the impending infestation right there, they will bloom into full blown chapters leeching out of me in torrents. For me it is as imperative a drive as eating or sleeping and those last two I will unblinkingly give up for time to get things down. The drive to see it on paper at last. Perhaps some day there will be a pill or a big hammer or something to quiet the impulse. Until then, I do it because I must.

 

[steve12553]

I've alway read and I've always daydreamed. Writing is a natural extension of the two (Although at some point you've got to stop daydreaming and do some work putting pen to paper [ or pixel to screen]) And that may be my problem there. Wheels within wheels, thoughts within thoughts (Brackets within ellipses).

 

[Verse]

I only write for the warm fuzzies I get when someone reads one of my stories and tells me they liked it. Sure, the fame and money would be nice too.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Umm at the risk of being a nutcase... the characters in my head won't leave me alone until i write about them. Seriously after I finish a draft of a story I get three wonderful days of peace were I don't feel an urge to write anything - and then they start again. I write for those three days.

 

[Susan Boulton]

I wanted to see if I could actually write a novel from beginning to end.

Did it once and wondered if I could do it again.

It sort of got out of control after that.

I now have an agent, am working on a duology and I am still wondering can I really write a novel from beginning to end.

 

[Colbey Frost]

I write because I feel depressed if I don't. I need to create. I have done this in many ways in the past e.g., drawing, but I find I can throw away art, but not the written word.

I aim to get published, but even if I knew it was never going to happen, I would still write. If I were rich, I would still write. That's what made me stop tattooing, and although I enjoyed it, and I couldn't honestly say I would want to do it forever, but with writing... well, it's just in me.