Why Do I Write? What compels me to write is from personal trauma in the past I write to help others in need of support for their personal situations What makes me write what I write is to heal myself further What made me decide that I like to write is that it comes naturally to me I write on personal experiences. Through my blog it concerns abuse, after effects, and recovery
writing is something very relieving for me . I just want to extract all my feelings , emotions , love,happiness ,sadness and anything pass in my mind. Hoping this will help someone else searching.
What compells you to write? From a young age I have had an inexplicable urge to tell stories. Writing is simply my preferred method. Why do you write? Like above and below, I have always had a desire to both hear stories and tell stories. What makes you write what you write? The very first book that I ever read was "The Hobbit" when I was in 1st Grade. Since then, I have developed an appetite for reading and a desire to share stories of my own. What Made you decide you liked to write? My teachers in Elementary school noted my interest in reading and encouraged me to write. I wrote my first "story" when I was in 2nd grade, it followed the travels of a hero named Bubble Boy who lived at the bottom of a toilet. What Do You Write? Anything and everything, though I tend more towards Fantasy and Sci-Fi.
1. The possibility to journey with imagination, to not force something through thinking. In a way this will mold something into existence possible for others to interpet. 2. I don't know, because it's nice. 3. Mostly how I view the world, that's probably what influenced me the most. 4. A period of psycothic depression or altered consciousness. That's when I began to write and at the same time I started to heal or understand. 5. It's all about the mind.
I'm similar to the recent posters, writing's been an amazing tool to help me recover from various things - I have depression etc and it's been a really good way to take my thought processes captive before they start to turn too dark etc. Anyway, on to the questions... - What compels you to write? Right now, ultimately I'm compelled by the decision/choice I made to get back to it. I used to write for escapism, but now I'm doing it to get something done/get that sense of achievement while also re-honing my brain (remembering how to be disciplined/work for long periods etc) - Why do you write? I just love it. It's challenging and stimulating and inspiring and just satisfies everything in me without being something destructive - What makes you write what you write? Probably some psychological need to understand/control people People fascinate me, particularly the unseen elements that you observe and start to unpick with time...Ultimately I'm writing about what forms a person/makes them choose to do the things they do/happens when these different messy creations get together and try to do something The genre is because that's what I love to read. I'm a 'nurture' girl (nature vs nurture debate) and I write in the genre/style I was surrounded by growing up. Feels like home, I suppose - What made you decide you liked to write? I have no idea. I did it obsessively during my child/teen years so can't remember a particular moment I was like 'ooh this is fun' - it was just my version of normal. Having been compelled to come back to it in my adulthood, I've sat down and it took about ten minutes for me to have the re-epiphany (i.e. it's fricking amazing, why did I stop?) That was because, for the first time in AGES, I felt awake and calm and interested in something (but able to stay focussed longer than ten minutes!) it was (and still is) amazing - What Do You Write? I'm justifying the habit by working on a particular project, but I'm starting to just sit down and write when I need to vent a particular issue/emotional knot (3am musings which I then delete in the cold light of day!) Basically, I write stories or I write what I can't bring myself to say out loud (and sometimes the two overlap) x R
I write because i can. It can't be summarized like people think it should. Too many words. I could write a nine part book series on why and it still wouldn't be enough.
Because i have no choice. Emotions, feeling and insanity seem to build up in my mind until they need releasing. Converting that in to words on paper feels like shouting it from a roof top to the whole world, even if no one ever reads it.
I so agree. Writing for many of us is so cathartic. We need it to survive in this emotional roller coaster world.
i used to be bullied, i would write short stories about terrible things happening to my bullies, it made me feel better, and when they bothered me i could laugh in their faces when i remembered what i had written. after a while i wrote poetry instead which i am better at but i still write occasionally when the idea strikes me.
I write because i need to get all the words and weirdness out my head and the best part is its not a painful process to do it
I am compelled to write by a sense of inadequacy. I do not like where or who I am in this world and I honestly hope that I can succeed as a writer. Additionally I've always glamorized writing and now that I've taken a few steps into it it feels really good. I remember now why I wanted to become a writer... Because I love getting swept up in a story. I love that we can escape from wherever we are into an imaginary world that allows us to forget all of our troubles. I love the ability to convey messages to through stories as well. So I want to become a successful author. I do want money, but I also want to help kids understand the world. I write young adult fiction because that's where I left off reading and that's what I'll always remember as having the most influence on me.
For me this is simple, I write because I love it! Usually ideas come to me in the night and if I don't start writing them down they completely absorb every part of my life until I can't think of anything else. So I write it down...
I have to write when it comes. If not, I can forget and my train of thought is not as good as it was when it was fresh.
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There are probably as many reasons for writing as there are writers, but I like to think most fall into one of George Orwell's four categories... Why I Write 1 - Sheer egoism- Orwell argues that a writer writes from a "desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups in childhood, etc." He says that this is a motive the writer shares with scientists, artists, lawyers - "the whole top crust of humanity" - and that the great mass of humanity, not acutely selfish, after the age of about thirty abandons individual ambition. A minority remains however, determined 'to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.' Serious writers are vainer than journalists, though "less interested in money". 2 - Aesthetic enthusiasm- Orwell explains that the present in writing is the desire to make one's writing look and sound good, having "pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story." He says that this motive is "very feeble in a lot of writers" but still present in all works of writing. 3 - Historical impulse- He sums this up stating this motive is the "desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity." 4 - Political purpose- Orwell writes that "no book is genuinely free from political bias", and further explains that this motive is used very commonly in all forms of writing in the broadest sense, citing a "desire to push the world in a certain direction" in every person. He concludes by saying that "the opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude." Despite his reasons, Orwell also said that "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." Perhaps he wrote that before his famous essay. I don't know, but it reminds me that writing is one of those things a writer just has to do. Then you have the context for all writing, whatever the reason, which in my opinion was best said by Walt Whitman: "There is no trick or cunning, no art or recipe to have in your writing what you do not have in yourself. Nor can you keep whatever evil or shallowness you entertain in yourself out of your writing." I love to make real things. Drill a hole here, attach a bracket there, paint it then put it to work in some practical way down where the rubber meets the road. But I love to make things with words, too. And the crazy part is that despite knowing that words are only handles to carry the idea of some thing to another person--not the thing itself--words are often more real for me than the thing itself. Hey, the desire to transform thoughts and feelings into words is a good way to be crazy!
I've always been creative with music, art, story telling. I'm not sure what makes me want to write. I do know that I find it a great way to express feelings and emotions.
I've only started to take up writing, mainly for the element of practice. When I don't write on a habitual basis, I have seen my writing quality dissipate. It then becomes hard to convey words without concerted contemplation of my structure just to wrangle up a sentence! Plus writing is a useful skill and I do admire the style of some writers, which I try to emulate.
The habit of writing and inspiration of writing will come from different ways for several people. While I like to write small blogs or short stories inspired by real life. I feel relief and relaxation of mind which really let me to write.
