Why do you write?

[sunstruckdream]

this sounds like total teen-poetry, so i'm sorry in advance - but my stories are my daydreams on paper. and yes, from time to time i use them to escape reality and to submerge myself in a world i can control. but honestly, my daydreams ARE like my second reality - hence my stories become real to me. i come to love my characters, to feel for them, to laugh with them and bawl with them. i love bringing them to life and spinning them through a crazy plot to bring out their true colors, darker sides, all that stuff.
i warned you it would sound like teen-poetry. but hey. it's true.

 

[Bree1]

I've never really thought about why I write. I just love to write. I write mostly for myself; I've allowed very few people to see my writing.

 

[praterdon]

I write therefore I am..... Just kidding!! I like to write about what God teaches me so that I can better understand it. It's easier for me once I put it on paper.

 

[missionarygirlie85]

well, i haven't really thought about why i write. i write to get out my feelings and doubts and all. and to tell others on paper what i can't in conversation. i don't talk too much

 

[x0xJesusIsLovex0x]

I write becuase it takes my mind of things, I go into a different world from reality. Its fun, and I have a brain that thinks, I guess you can say.

 

[FrenzyforChrist]

It depends on what Im writing. If its the begging of a story its becuse I have to much on my mind and need to get some stuff of my mind. If it's my poems it's to share my love for christ and or becuase of some high emotions.

 

[oncewaslost]

i write because it's fun... and because if i don't write the story down, it haunts me.

 

[ShyFlower]

I write because I enjoy it. Writing has always been something very therapeutic for me. It helps me to center and focus myself.

I usually try to write with other people.

 

[tsubasa]

I write as a catharsis -I need to get something off of my chest and it's better that it gets turned into a piece of work than a random tirade at one of my friends. So I write for myself, in order to get rid of the stress.

I said this to my English lecturer at University in my first year, and we entered into a huge debate about why people write, because he maintained that no-one writes for themselves since everyone has an audience in mind (he takes a structuralist perspective to literature).

 

[kevin36]

Why do I write? To keep my head from exploding...

I can't even imagine trying to be sane with all that bottled up inside. It has to get out, even if it's only for me.

I've just finished my first attempt at a "real" story that I hope to get published, so we'll just have to see if I can go from writing for my own pleasure to writing for mine and others' pleasure.

For me, it's like most artistic endeavors- it HAS to come outr somehow... so maybe I can bring some enjoyment to the public with it.

God Bless
Kevin

 

[willmrcd1]

I started writing at the age of 10, because it was my only way out. I needed an emotional outlet. Then I stopped writing and when I had my son who was born with Autism I began to put my pain onto the pages.
My writing at first was just for me, but when I shared a couple of the poems I wrote with others I saw the tears well up in their eyes and knew that it had to be shared with others.

I sent my manuscript last year and became published. " A Touch of Peace" is something that was born out of pain and tears. Yes, a journey that I have to say saved me.

Why do I write? I write to live.

 

[dawnsday]

Because it's the only pure thing I can do on this earth.

 

[sunstruckdream]

i am in a furious mood right now. absolutely furious. it's too long and exhaustive a story to get into, but right now i'm going to work on a story a bit to disconnect from it all and connect to something else.

it's a good reason.

 

[FriarErasmus]

I write because my God is a creative God. He created me, and though I will not have the creative power to create an actual Universe and it's inhabitants, I can create a story about them as if they exist. I'm called to be like Christ, and through him, like God, therefore I feel that with the gift God has given me, I must write. It is my calling and my ministry. It is how I express my faith, and how I am more like the Creator, God, every day.

 

[METAL]

I enjoy creating/being creative and bringing joy to others and myself.

M

 

[sunstruckdream]

have i mentioned that it's just FUN?

 

[VincentBlack]

I write when the spirit gives me inspiraton to write. Noramally when I am so humbled by His gifts that i can't not write words of praise!

 

[BeauxReflets]

I write as I love to share the things I enjoy

beaux reflets

 

[DarkLegend28]

writing provides me a certain escape from reality..