I'm generally a quiet person. Writing allows me the venue to express my emotions and thoughts. I'm introspective, and I like to observe the world around me. My writing usually involves long thought out ideas and contemplations. I keep a blog and share my thoughts. I also have written multiple newspaper articles. I hope to extend my abilities into the future and become an investigative journalist, God willing.
I am compelled to write because there are ideas in my head, stories that clamour to get out where other people can see them. Mostly it's the characters who haven't gotten their time yet, and my heroine whose story I am so fascinated by that compell me. I can't stop seeing where their lives can go, and I must tell the story. If I let it go too long between sessions the ideas just pile up thicker and higher until I can't help myself and am forced to work. I write in the genres that I do because they are the stories I most like reading, and imagining myself in the midst of. I want to be part of those worlds, and have fantastical things happen to me, but since I'm not tapped for some Grand Destiny and I have these characters in my head already I just give them the adventures and the excitement that their story commands. I've always been a writer, from the time I was a kid until now. I don't even remember a time when utilizing words and images to tell stories wasn't a basic part of me. I'm a born storyteller. I write mainly vampire-centric urban fantasy and horror. I'm endlessly fascinated with the vampire mythos and its changability. I also love the way that horror - particularly vampire horror - allows a writer to look into the darker parts of human nature and behaviour. It can go anywhere you want to take it, even to places where other people would look away because it's so awful, but you keep going anyway because that's where the story goes. -Nova
why do people talk? we speak,talk to vent out our feelings,to put forward what is in our mind...so i personally write for the same reason..writing allows a passage to my feelings,emotions,build up frustation...writing is my passion too....work of other writers also inspire me to do my bit..in short i write because it heals.
I write to create a permanent me. The older I get, the more ephemeral I feel my life is, and the more tenuous my attachment to reality is. I want to counter that with something firmer, stronger, more longer-lasting than I am myself. I want to assert myself in the universe. I think this is a common feeling, but most people deal with it my having children. Their children are their permanence, their mark on existence. Those of us who don't have children may feel we have to create something else. That something else, for me, is fiction and music. I have no talent for, nor inclination towards visual arts, so I stick to my writing and singing and strumming.
The reasoning behind why you write - and what you get out of it Hello peoples. There have been a few threads concerning what you write and so on, but, here, I am interested more on you as a person. Do you write for a purpose? and if so, what is it? Maybe you write because you want to write a novel and get it out there, no matter what. Maybe it is because you simply enjoy it, but will in all likelihood never do anything with it. I guess my thinking behind this new post is to ask, why it is that I so often read that someone has written X-amount of words only to dump it, or never touch it again. Surely we as writers want to finish something and then go on to polish it up, so that we can offer it to the World? Of course, if you write simply for self-enjoyment, then that would explain it. The floor is yours, peoples ...
Hi. I write for two reasons. One: I simply enjoy writing. Secound: I love the feeling of having other people enjoying what I create(don´t we all?)
I write, because I enjoy it. I don't care if it gets published, or if no one but me reads it. I just want these ideas in my head on paper.
I guess reason one is I like to make concrete the plots and characters that float around in my head. I enjoy the work and discipline that goes into forming a story or novel, although I am very slow. A short story sometimes takes me more than a month to finish. The second reason I write is the--rarely-experienced--thrill of seeing something I've done in print. I've had to find a compromise between what I always dreamed I would write, and what I now realistically think I can succeed in getting published. It's pretty tough as well being out of the loop as an expat. The road to self-awareness was rough at times. However, after a few years of piling up 'high literary' manuscripts--which now, looking back at, I see really do not make the grade--I now appreciate the skill of all writers who work hard to deliver a product that people want, and I am happier to accept both the breadth and the limit of what talent I have.
I don't know is the answer to your question. My characters had been in my head since my teenage years. Since school I haven't really written any fiction, just a couple of short stories. One was an archaeology satire, but I wrote it at the end of August 2001 it started with aliens blowing up the Twin Towers in New York and the city being destroyed. Kind of freaked me out less than a month later to watch my opening scene on the news. Last February I sat down with a pad and pen and began to write my story. It wasn't planned I often write bits whilst watching TV, but this time I didn't stop, three months later I had my first draft completed. Then I wrote my second draft, I had no initial reason for doing it, but then i let other people read it and my teenage boys are avidly devouring it, demanding new work every week. My bestfriend when he finally started phoned up to come round the next day to read the rest. I began to realise my story has potential and is enjoyed by other people. The story began as a thriller/adventure story for adults told from the point of view of 8 characters it was like 8 novellas in one. It didn't work but the story is good, so I changed the genre its now Young Adult/Junior Fiction and the story in that genre is working well. I have found by playing around with genre many of my stories that didn't work now do, for example an historical fiction piece is sitting better as a gothic ghost story. I know my non fiction writing style is good, and original, I've started degrees in about eight different subjects over the past 13 years lol My intial plan had been to be a forensic anthropologist. However part way through my archaeology degree I became ill and was unable to continue. In the last month my brain has been working better, and I realise I want this so I have been writing short stories and sending them off to various competitions etc I am also getting my story properly prepared to go off to the publishers and literary agents. There is a publishers in Scotland that I love the look of and they publish only young adult/junior fiction. They are a new publishers that have had lots of success within Scotland with their books, but they are also still taking direct submissions and working closely with the authors. I want it just right before it gets sent off to them. So far writers block has never lasted more than 20 minutes lol if nothing else I have diarhea (sp??) of the pen and it just spills out. In the last six months I have filled 12 A4 pads handwriting, written two 40,000 words drafts and about 20 short stories. I think I need help lol Enid Blyton is my goal imagine writing 600 books in your lifetime. Herself and Agatha Christie have always been massive if slightly screwed up heroines of mine. I have no bother deleting thousands of words or throwing out notebooks, I prefer to be uncluttered with old ideas, and to keep going with new ones. I am becoming a bit of a tart though, give me a good review and I write another 3000 words lol I've realised that when someone likes what I write, that is why I am writing.
Why?: Because I can. The more I do, the better I can. As there are times to converse, times for quiet contemplation, times for questions and seeking answers to same. So there are times to give worthy thoughts a sense of permanence. Those are the times to organize, in my most communicable fashion, and set to paper
In real life, I strive to be myself. I'm in my teens, trying to figure out what kind of person I am, and struggling against others trying to make me act differently. But, in being myself, I can't do certain things. I can't live in different times, have different powers, or be caught in different, thrilling situations. I write because there comes a point in life when being the same person, doing the same things, and seeing the same things around you day to day becomes tiresome. In fact, it becomes so boring I feel like my entire being will dry up and crack into a million pieces. If I can't have certain experiences being myself, then I'll just have to do it vicariously. Writing is a way to do whatever you want; be whoever you want, without having to pretend to be someone I'm not in real life.
What compells you to write? Nothing forces me to write except the sheer will to write all the silly stories I come up with. The only thing I have to force myself to do is get up early to write them or stay up late at night. I love my sleep so that’s a hard thing to do for me. Why do you write? I’ve always written and I’ve always had an exuberant imagination; now if the question was.. “how did you start writing” the answer is: I used to tell stories to my kids at lunch time so that they’d be more interested in food than TV, a new story every day and one day I decided to record my stories and write them down but that took me too long so in the end I opted for writing them at night, doing the illustrations too, printing them and then telling them the story at lunch time. What makes you write what you write? I get my ideas from comments I hear from people or from what I observe people doing. Sometimes I get ideas from a picture, a sentence or even an advert. I write my stories because I’d like to see them published one day; that would be nice, something to leave my children apart from my old alarm clock. What Made you decide you liked to write? I really don’t know how one can come up with a decision on whether one likes doing something or not, one simply does. It gives me pleasure not only to write things but to see that other people tend to like what I write. What Do You Write? [/QUOTE] I started with children’s stories and I still write them now, bed time stories for my daughter and then I also write all sorts and for a wide range in ages; all fiction, (lies, lies, lies hahaha). I mainly write short stories, from 50 to a maximum of 3000 words so far. I don’t write horror or investigative: Horror, I get scared so that’s no good; and investigative: I haven’t got the vocabulary. How was that for an answer? And now this: My purpose is to entertain anyone who’d read my stories and also the highest aim is to get published, of course.
Oh! another reason why I started writing my stories was that children's books were too expensive for me to buy so I'd make my own for my kids. Nice way to save money.
I write because it feels awesome. I can't make the real people do stuff with the story characters there are no limits.
What compells you to write? A need to make sense of the hazy imagery. A story forms in the mind but it's an unedited movie. I have to put it together and make it make sense. Why do you write? Pride's a powerful thing. What makes you write what you write? My favorite author thinks that we could spend every moment of every day examineing our soul and still never know our true material. I think that material is what make me write. What Made you decide you liked to write? I had something to say and until I was "Made" to do so I realized that I was being a coward. What Do You Write? Hopefully, I write what isn't already being said.
I was a writer for a long before I realized it; long before I decided to pick up a pen and commit my thoughts to paper. Ever since I can remember I have always made up stories and poems in my head. For years I thought I was just a day dreamer. There was one true story I wanted the world to know and that was a story about my mongrel dog Peter. I wrote that story and another one about a primary school teacher. To my surprize when I started to write, both stories just flowed onto the paper. I had gone over theses stories, in my head, so many times they were almost there. A couple of rewrites later, I got in touch with the editor of a magazine and both stories were published. That was it I was hooked.
I think writing springs from a certain ignition that stirs something in your head. It release your divergent worries about different matters in life and relaxes you. Also, by writing you don't feel that what you have read is useless or resulted in nothing. Moreover, expressing what in mind let others have an access to your thoughts and beliefs. I remember that I read once a saying by a Muslim Calif that the best thing in his life is to go on journeys in the minds of philosophers and writers -of course he meant here the process of reading-- and if writers stop to write, nothing can be read.
Because I feel the need to do something creative. Painters paint. Actors Act. I can't do those things, so I'll stick with the one thing I might have some small talent for. I come up with a nice little story and think to myself "I wonder if other people would enjoy reading that?" and I feel the need to at least try.
What compels you to write? Plot bunnies! They just don't leave me alone x3 If I don't write, I zone out more, which simply isn't good for my grades. Why do you write? To escape, among other things. The more time I spend in the worlds I create, with elves and dragons and fae, the less time I'm here. Of course I enjoy it as well, but that's my main reason. Well, and that I'm finding it harder and harder to find decent books to read in the particular genres I enjoy. What makes you write what you write? Plot bunnies? ...I get ideas from books I read. I really like the idea, or it gives me another idea, and I write around it. What Made you decide you liked to write? Sitting up on my laptop at ridiculous hours of the morning. I love sleep, staying up meant something. What Do You Write? Fantasy! I've tried writing more realistic fiction stories, but magic always slips in somehow, and I don't really know enough of the world to realistically write something like that, in my opinion.
What compels you to write? A love of reading, books as objects and words. There is nothing like the turn of a page or the feeling of fountain pen to paper Why do you write? Apart from because I can?! Its intellectual and creative in a way that is practical for me. I love books in every way so to write one is like reaching the top of Everest! What makes you write what you write? A head full of ideas and a passion for the written word What Made you decide you liked to write? Seeing the notebooks full of words that I had created! And if I couldnt be reading, I wanted to be writing something to read! What Do You Write? Whatever fills my head with enough gusto for me to write it down. It could be an opinion piece, a short story, just a scene, a starting point or the beginning/middle/end of a novel. I write whatever comes out of my mind with the flow of the ink on the page.
I write because I am addicted to the feeling of pen on paper, I am addicted to putting my thoughts on paper. And I consider the defence of English Grammar a bloodsport!
Why do I write? It's what I do. To me crafting stories is similar to faithfully recording real events, sometimes the characters and situations come as real to me as anything else, but more compelling. I am a story teller, and I do know that by typing it out, I get the same effect as I do sharing the story.
I write because I need to. I would rather write than breathe. It's my passion. I love it more than anything. It is what completes me. It's my identification for existence. I'm a writer. I'm here to write, to entertain, and inspire. If not, then I don't care, I'm gonna write anyway, because it's the only thing that REALLY matters.
