Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! discussion

There are lots of answers, I don't think any are wrong. I see it often written about on blogs. Some people start writing from the moment they can hold a pen, and others take a little longer for the spark to flare.

I think the answer can be both personal and impersonal. Writing is an emotional outlet as much as it can isolate you. But still, we all love doing it.

So, why do you write?

Aside from always enjoying penning a story, the recent year has been especially therapeutic in being able to immerse myself into the writing world. After suffering a stroke, writing my book has helpedme to recover much of my aability to think and communicate more clearly. The thrill of getting published returned my sense of self worth. I love to write.

Writing for me is a constructive form of day dreaming. It's a chance to create the books that I'd love to read, but do not exist. And since I have no musical ability whatsoever, it's my opportunity to sing.

Simple answer: I have to.

Longer answer: I love a good story. The right one draws me into its world and I don't want to leave. I have good ideas and I want to create that kind of experience for people.

I'm very much inspired by the creators of "Lost." The way the audience, the creators, and the story were in a constant state of communication (watching, dissection, and explanation) was powerful. I know there are some who didn't like the ending, I disagree with that opinion personally, but really I enjoyed the journey a great deal.

I write so that I can create a similar experience for my readers. Really I want people to read what I've written and have a reaction to it. The more the better.

I write to share the stories that I produce in my head. Sometimes I am compelled to write. Once I figure out the ending that compulsion usually goes away. I have learned to enjoy the journey towards that ending. Crafting the why and how of everything. Building characters whose motivations and goals are at odds with each other. Now that I am doing this every day, the need to get it out is growing. It's almost like an addiction. I wish I could do this as my full time job. Maybe one day it will be.

I starting writing when I learnt how to read and write, but then there was quite a big gap where I didn't write that lasted about 5 years. I got back into writing for a few reasons:
-a friend's blog about writing and poetry.
-a French teacher with great essay ideas.
-falling in love and attempting to write poetry for that reason.
-...
I can't remember all the reasons but there were many and when I started again I really loved it and haven't stopped since ^^

I always have, and probably always will. Stories come to me all the time, and I've always loved writing them down and sharing them with others. If I had to answer specifically why, I'd say it's because I want to share with others that sensation that I feel when a story pops into my head and I go "oh wow, that's cool".

That sensation is the best thing ever.

I want to turn it into a flavour of icecream, sell millions and retire from this life of crime

I've always enjoyed playing with words, twisting them around, and coming up with ludicrous ways to express things, and that has a great deal to do with it, to be honest. For me it's probably more about playing with words than about telling an actual story.

One of my favourite quotes, from Douglas Adams, is “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't”, and that kind of illustrates the kind of thing I enjoy reading (and trying to write), along with deliberately over-the-top and overblown flowery nonsense like “Father, I am welling over with limpid joy! No sicklying taint of sorrow overlies the lucid lake of liquid love, upon which, hand in hand, Aline and I are to float into eternity!" (by W.S. Gilbert, from 'The Sorcerer" operetta). As well as the less serious stuff, I also like stuff like H.P. Lovecraft and Shakespeare - writers who really know how to craft with the language itself, not just tell a tale effectively in the minimum number of words, if you see what I mean.

I've always enjoyed expressing myself and explaining things through writing generally - for example, I spent several years as a moderator (and regular contributor, of course) on one of the largest political discussion forums on the internet. Although it's always been something I've wanted to do, it's only recently that I've 'gone backwards' towards my childhood in a sense, and gone back to 'creative writing', and I'm absolutely loving it!

I've always wanted to 'have written' and so spent a lot of my time avoiding the actual writing part, creating characters and ideas and settings with glimpses of story but no actual text.

Then I got I'll (I suffer with ME) and struggled to do anything. Writing got me back to some semblance of normal and I realised what I was missing out on.

I also think that, as a writer, I benefit hugely from the fairly new social aspects of being a writer now (such as these groups, blogs, twitter etc) because people are my motivators - I rarely do anything for myself, so I need some external pressure to cheer me on!

Now I feel I couldn't stop writing...I've so much to tell! I really want to share my stories with the world!

I could live my entire life through douglas adams quotes :3

Yay! ME! it's all in your head... Then you try to give blood and they don't want it. Ya know... Just in case. Know how you feel with that one ^-^

Bisky wrote: "I could live my entire life through douglas adams quotes :3
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I tend to live my live through Gilbert quotes. It's just something that seeps into your brain after a while.
I don't tend to well over with limpid joy too often, thankfully!

I will quote Sylvia Plath here:
“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”

This is one of the reasons. Second is that I do believe that I have some message to tell the readers (that may be lessons I have learned and I don't want them to make as I did, also showing that everything in this world has both sides of coin, etc). Third thing that is at the very top of my mind right now is cause I am in relationship with myslef when I sit down and take pen in my hand. I guess that all of you know that priceless feeling. :)

There are many more reasons, but those three are ones I think the best represent my reason for being a writer.

I write because I love to. Granted, I typically need to be in the mood to write, but I adore it.

I started writing after my "I want to be a singer" phase when I thought I would write songs about my day. It started from there when I was about 12 or 13.

I think I began to write because I was tired of making all those stories in my head (mostly before bed time) and not remembering half of them the next day. Then my characters started complaining that I made them inconsistent through out the story. So I had to start penning it down... :P

I love writing. I love being able to coil a scenario into a cavalcade of words.

In recent times it's helped me get over some personal hurdles and problems, so in a way it's been very cathartic.

I write because I enjoy it, and as Marat quoted, "There is a voice within me that will not be still." I had this overwhelming need to give life to the worlds and characters I had created outside of my artwork. One thing led to another, and eventually I started to write a book. :D

. . . Then a book decided it wanted to be a trilogy, and the trilogy decided to sprout short stories and a standalone novel. So now I have a lot of work ahead of me, but I'm looking forward to every moment of it!

As we're quoting Douglas Adams in this thread, I think my reason for writing is much the same as the Vogon guard's motivation in life: "I don't know, really... I just sort of... do it."

But even with my very modest rate of output, I love the fact that I've created a few stories and books which people will still be able to read long after I'm dead and forgotten. People will forever be able to get a little taste of what it's like in my head. The poor chaps.

Because if I don't I can't think straight. I need to put my imagination on paper so I can move forward. Sometimes I just sit down and write what comes to mind. If anyone else read those logs they might think me a bit weird. Lol

I just had a little jigsaw piece drop into my story last night and connected everything else together. Those feelings are a good reason to write.

*Rolls around on the floor*

A lion born free, yet hept in a cage will always dream of the open spaces, till time will break it's spirit, am I right? That's what writing is for me

I have always written but allowing someone besides myself to read is new for me. Nov 2013 my first book was published. The first person to read my creative writing was APRIL of 2013. So to answer as to why it was and is therapeutic for me. I always love to heal myself with words...my own..and others. Now I want to heal others with words that healed me.

Kamil...yes I believe you are onto something! I know the feeling well. Writing has helped me find ME!

The challenge is to get what's in my head on paper. Next challenge is to make what's on paper better than my head imagined.

Carl wrote: "The challenge is to get what's in my head on paper. Next challenge is to make what's on paper better than my head imagined."

LOL Love that!

Thanks.

Is why I gave up art -_-

I'm very sincere in believing the things I'll add to this thread. First, from grade school I was so outrageously off the charts in terms of command of the language and the ability to speed read that I thought for sure writing would be the way in. What happened along the way for me was a string of incredible opportunities to put on TV, theater and music shows. I'm going to turn 50 this year. I've published the book about the musician I worked for without him or his wife living to see it completed as if somehow I've saved something from a lost civilization. I've turned my attention to writing novels, 2 underway at the same time, with the hope that somehow the things few people ever see that I've been part of inform the works enough to somehow leave this world better off for my being here. It's not like my life is attached to the outcome. It's just a wish...

david: "to create the books that I'd love to read, but that do not exist."
neil: "being able to coil a scenario into a cavalcade of words."
angelo: "to leave this world better off for my being here."
willow: "escapism and therapy. Seriously necessary to sanity. It is passion and art. Sometimes I bleed, sometimes I soar."
me: "yup. uhh-huh."