Why do you write? Its a good way to release my mind really, otherwise I just go a little mental and start to sing and dance round the house really loudly, which I do anyway, but it dulls me down. What compels you to write? The need to express myself, my mind works incredibly quickly and is filled to the brim with ideas and just stuff really. Making me hard to understand sometimes because my brain will work faster than my mouth, so I write because my fingers tend to keep up the pace much easier What makes you write what you write? I'm not overly sure, I just get urges that I find are easier to write down than explain to people. What do you write? Mostly fiction, I love books like The lord of the rings trilogy, the dicsworld series, so i get inspiration from them greatly. They can go quite dark though sometimes. What made you decide you liked to write? I've always been told that I was a good story teller, even when young I could draw people into them, but I'm not sure if that's because I was young and cute, that generally helps to make for a kinder crowd. I just decided I wanted to write down what was in my head, and I was encouraged to do so at school, even told to do English for uni (but I dropped out of education as it just doesn't suite me) It's just a nice release from reality.
What compells you to write? Boredom, or when I need to get my feels out and onto paper. Seeing how a certain character would react makes me feel better and maybe change the way I think about things. Sometimes I just crave a nice keyboard under my fingers and a nice font coming up on screen. Why do you write? It helps me to work out and come to terms with my past, because my memory is so poor it helps to make sense of things in the past when I create a 'new' memory. And there's a little hope that if I share them with people other people will get some solace, or understanding, out of it. I write about dark things and I want to get rid of the stigma of them if I can. But basically, it's good therapy. What makes you write what you write? Whatever I'm thinking about at the moment. Or I just sit staring at a page and start talking to it until it develops into a story with a character and a plot. Either that or I just end up with ramblings that I delete because they don't go anywhere. What made you decide you liked to write? I don't really know. Doing well in English lessons helped a lot I think, especially as one of my few memories of when I was a kid was being kept in at lunchtime at school because I couldn't full a page with my big, clumsy, four-year old's handwriting. It makes me happy to have come past that and be able to write something quickly and coherently. What Do You Write? Either argument essay type things when I get annoyed or want to write something intellectual, or fiction, which is normally as dark and depressing as it can get.
It's my way of testing myself, to see if I can stretch and allow something I made to exist without changing or destroying it. I want to create something that I can enjoy and be proud of. To gain confidence and skill. I like fantasy, and I grew up reading Tamora Pierce and Mercedes Lackey. I want to make something similar that I can call my own. I had an idea. It grew and shifted and hovered in the back of my head for a long time before I was willing to notice it. Currently that project is shelved because I want to be able to do justice to it when I do start writing again in earnest. The young adult novel is practice. Fantasy. Currently a young adult novel, then a more in depth adult fantasy novel.
What compells you to write? That itch...idea, thought, feeling...that won't go away until scratched in writing. The desire to want to impact someone else's life with my words and imagery in the same way others have mine. Why do you write? It's my "me" time. I'm an artist at heart and writing is just one form of design that frees me. What makes you write what you write? It's different things on different days. I find inspiration in dreams, conversations, anecdotes from my children, colors, smells...life. If enough fuel is there, I run with it. What Made you decide you liked to write? For as long as I can remember I've written for personal enjoyment. Even in school I welcomed the challenge of an essay or narrative. I discovered my wit was sharpest on paper and used writing as a way to come out of my shell. When I overcame my shyness, my tongue became faster than my brain getting me into unnecessary trouble. I learned to reel myself back in with a pen and keyboard. What Do You Write? Mostly fiction and poetry; currently battling with a memoir.
All very obvious reasons really. I live alone inside my own head as I suspect many writers do. Writing for me is both creation and connection. All humans are driven to create in one facet or another. I have become oddly comfortable with my reclusive nature yet I still crave the feeling of being connected to something or someone... For me writing is one of the very few things that even comes close to satiating this desire. I tend to write allegories, I think encoding messages is a way for me to convey that I feel out of place in the open, I feel distanced from normalcy.
In the very beginning it was like a hobbe. I just had an intention to put my thoughts on the paper. But later I found out that it was possible to earn money while writing some pieces. So, later I became money-motivated, as well.
Writing is healing for me, after I have written a piece my mind feels lighter and my soul is hugged with safety. We have to get our thoughts and our feelings out somehow don't we? To put them into perspective!
What compells you to write? The fact that, aside from anything else, i enjoy it. Why do you write? Right now, is to share my experiences with others, I'm a non-fiction writer and am currently doing a book and blog for new and expectant fathers. What makes you write what you write? My current projects are both inspired, and supported by my wife, who is also carrying our first child - which inspired me to write on that very subject. What Made you decide you liked to write? English was the one subject I would actually make the effort to turn up to at school, I enjoyed writing, and enjoyed the feedback from my peers who enjoyed what I wrote. What Do You Write? Non-fiction, I'm currently writing a book and blog for new and expectant fathers.
Hmm... I guess everything compells me to write... My life makes me write. I have to get my thoughts out of my head and my heart onto paper or I'll go crazy. I have to let my inspiration and creativity to flow and not be bottled up. If it is bottled up, what good is it? I write because I want to. Because it makes me feel good and free to express myself the way I want to. I could be anyone I wanted to in writing. I can tell any story I want to tell and it be perfect and relevant to another person in the world out there. Some of us just need someone to understand us to make us feel better. What makes me write what I write, are my feelings and my sense of creativity. Mostly my feelings though. I want to show how I feel on the inside through my writing on the outside. What made me decide I liked to write was probably childhood. I always liked telling stories and playing pretend with my sisters and friends. I like creativity, and writing helps me do that among other things. I write mostly poetry, but I can write anything. In school I write essays and how I feel on certain subjects. Whatever I feel like writing at the time.
I started writing as a source of healing. My twin brother died in a horrific way when we were fifteen years old. As a reader I turned to a source of comfort I enjoyed. However, I had trouble finding books that I could relate to because I lost a twin. Books about the unique grieving process a twin faces is quite rare. So instead of reading, I began to write. It started out as a form of therapy, but gradually became a memoir for my twin and the story of his death. Although, I feel in my heart the memoir is finished, but not ready for publication, it led me into writing of all kinds. Now I am currently pursuing a literary agent for my first book and have written two others. Writing has become my happy place. My source of comfort and something I look forward to doing everyday.
I don't write, unfortunately. I haven't written anything of substance in years. But ideas keep popping into my head. They don't stop. So I look back on my life now and see a ton of wasted potential, which is more discouraging that motivating. But every now and again, I get the itch to try again and instead of doing anything constructive, I'll join a writing forum or something until that urge passes and I can go back to being nothing.
I have never been an avid reader and have never written anything but a short story for school, but lately I've been motivated by a few great works of fiction. Each book has left me thinking there's no way I could ever create something as rich and engaging. So, I thought, let's see if I can find out how they do it? And here I am.
I see really only two questions rather than five: 1. Why do I write? A: Because I have more going on in my head than can fit in. It has to come out some way and for me creating structured stories based on thought-provoking ideas and themes and then telling them is the outlet. As a lone wolf, I find the best way to do that is via novels. 2. What do I write? A: Big stuff. I like very long form sci-fi/space opera stories - not just single novels, but stories that unfold over several books. My influences will answer some of that as I am partial to the stories of the likes of Frank Herbert (Dune), Asimov (Foundation), McCaffrey (Pern), Pratchett (Discworld). I do like other stuff as well though
The first and only piece of writing I have ever finished was called "The Mobile Infantry: The British Campaign". It was about 20 - 30 pages long and based on Starship Troopers and written during my early teens. I think writing is a great way of expressing my inner feelings and allows my imagination to run absolutely wild. I liked the first two films, both for different reasons however being a military enthusiast, I was annoyed by how unelite the elite Mobile Infantry was in all the films. I remember saying to myself "I could write a better version than this" and it was this massive amount of motivation that I spent weeks working on it. Now from professional point of view, it was badly written, the plot was very one way and poor character and setting description but, it shows just how much I can do with the right amount of oush and more importantly, how much I loved doing it. Now, after reading a lot of Karen Traviss and finding this site I hope to create an epic piece.
I'm compelled by my thoughts. If something makes me think it usually makes me want to write. I write because... well... I don't know. Its just something I've always done. I want to write of the world we live in so I can offer my ideas and perspective. I like to make reality a little more fantastical. I don't always like to write. I just can't not write. I write non genre fiction. I find fantasy fun to write sometimes but it just isn't what I expect from myself and what I expect from my writing.
Why do you write? To tell a story. What compels you to write? A story that wants to be told. A conflict to explore, a character to follow along his or her journey. What makes you write what you write? The unrelenting vision of the scenes playing in my head. Like the takes in a movie, scenes in TV show. What Made you decide you liked to write? I like to build and share a story. I don't like to write. It is hard, difficult, frustrating and time consuming. But I believe it is one of the best way to share a story, to mind meld in a way and to enter another's world. What Do You Write? Conflict and resolution. Emotional journeys.
Why do you write? To release myself from my body & send myself into a new world, atleast momentarily. What compels you to write? The need to create. What makes you write what you write? The constantly shifting voices in my head, figure they may as well stay on paper. What Made you decide you liked to write? I use to read alot of books when I was younger & I finally decided on doing it myself. What Do You Write? Inner dialogue, adventures, poetry, comedy.
Why do you write? I began writing at school. You know, writing essays and such, just plain educational writing. Then I realized that it wasn’t really all that fun to write, so I started added a bit of flare to my assignments. I started to use words that I thought sounded fun and more exciting, then all of a sudden I enjoyed writing my opinion on whatever academic writing I was doing at the time. Then we started reading poems and I would love hearing the nice ones that rhymed with every other word or so, so I decided to make my own poems. Poems then transformed into ideas or models of a potential full story. I never got around to making a novel, but I did write ideas and things that inspired me in my composition book/journal. What compels you to write? Nothing really compels me to write. I write because it is fun. I do lots of things because it brings joy and excitement to my life, but I am not really compelled to do them. If I go long periods without writing, I just do without it, no big problem. I come back to writing for probably the same reasons someone is always watching TV or reading or any other passive (not always) past time. What makes you write what you write? I write what I write mainly because it is the same thing that I like to read or watch. I am inspired by my favorite books or movies and this makes me want to create something with my own words that reminds me of the things that I love to be part of. What made you decide you liked to write? School! Not directly, more in an indirect way. I was never one for doing homework so I loved to go to school library and pick out a book. They would have the scholastic reader catalog and I would remember always wanting to purchase a book to take home and devour. School brought me to my favorite authors. I loved their writing so much that I wrote them and asked them how to become a writer I actually got a response from two of my favorite authors which I remember making me very happy. I really thought at that point that I would write because they took the time from their busy schedule to write me back. One writer was from London, so that was really neat! What Do You Write? I write whatever I can. I don’t limit myself but if I manage to get word on paper than I am happy. I know my writing isn’t all that well, but with time I do plan on writing fiction for a living one day (even if just part time). Rule to thumb is that I write what makes me happy, because if I can’t enjoy my own work then it’s not worth writing.
I write because it is a true passion of mines. In my writing I'm taken to another place and inspiration begins to flow out of several areas of my life. My emotions, soul, spirit and body play major parts in my writing. My faith as well as my education and knowledge and every day sense guides my writing and writing style. Writing is a powerful way to communicate to others maybe even more powerful than written word because it reveals the soul and inner mysteries of a person more than words can. Writing is a mystical experience to me that transcends natural life yet allows nature to play a part in the transcending experience.
I write because I just do...I know nothing else. Without writing, I wouldn't still be here. It's just what I've done my entire life and feels like my only purpose.
