For all the writers out there: professional or amateur - why do you love to write?

Question

I'm just interested in knowing why people love to write - coz I do too~

Answer 1

I like to "SLAM" the ink to the paper baaaaby(=

Answer 2

I love to write because I am better expressing myself on paper than in any other way. Music is nice, I can sing my heart out and feel a little better. I like to paint and draw as well, but if I'm already upset or irritated or otherwise emotional I will just bother me more with an urge to get my feelings out and not quite being able to express them. But with writing, you can say exactly how you feel. Then, days, or even years later, someone can read what you wrote and know exactly what you were going through, exactly what you were feeling for that moment in time.
The ancient Egyptians said that to be remembered after you are gone is to be immortalized and writing helps me to do this.

Answer 3

This may sound silly, but I think it started when I got married and was pregnant. Every time I was in the shower I would have what I thought were brilliant thoughts. When I got out of the shower I would make a note of my thoughts. I would write on any piece of paper that was handy.

I had a box full of notes 40 years later. I got my kids raised and when I retired in 1996 I began to put all my notes together. I called it My Philosophy, Perception, Sentiment, Opinion. Next I wrote my personal history.

Now, along with some research, I have written family history on 3 different lines of my ancestors. I just finished a book on my father's history and his ancestors. It is 500 pages of text and 30 pages of photos..

I have just started writing about our first child who is now 49 years old.

I have this strong need from within to leave a legacy for my posterity.

My husband has written two novels. He is a good story teller.

Answer 4

I haven't written in some time, to be honest. But when I do write, it's because I have the need to create something that will touch other people. It's a way of communicating a universal thought or feeling, or to make someone think of something that maybe they hadn't thought of before. I like to spark an interest or turn someone on to a new concept or idea. If I don't ever write something that gets published, I think I'd like to become a teacher because sharing new ideas really interests me.

Answer 5

The reason why I love to write is because I come up with so many ideas for stories without hardly any effort.. unless I have writers block. Writing poems to novel length stories help me say my emotions. Looking back on my pervious writings, I can tell that they sometime depend on the mood I am in. The best advice anyone ever gave me is, write what you know.

Answer 6

Because I'm narcissistic. As my professor put it last year, "When historians look back at our times, they're not going to be looking at the football games or the celebrities, they're going to look at our books."
Not only that, though. Writers love to read, too. We know when we see a certain sentence or phrase or pick up on a writing style that we love this sort of thing. We just sort of get it. We love to produce stories, to create new worlds, and do it all in a language that's versatile and specific enough to create the exact image we want.
Every word that we get down on that piece of paper, every comma we throw in, every paragraph, everything... It's like chain-smoking, without the health effects, the stench and the browning teeth.

Answer 7

I very much enjoy writing. I'm an aspiring writer of fiction/fantasy stories (fantasy as in faeries, dragons and mythical creatures - not the perverted idea of 'fantasy'). My mom encouraged me to get into writing because of the way I phrase words and express them. English and Spelling were my best subjects in school, so writing seems to be my niche in life. I'm working on two stories right now, but the stories I write aren't going to be books. Instead, I've decided to write screenplays from them when I'm finished with them. One of my stories is something on the order of 'Carrie' based on one of my true-life experiences. The other story I'm writing is in the genre of Lord of the Rings. Of course, both stories are not going to be anything like the movies I mentioned - they're just in that genre of fiction. The best reason I can give for my great desire to write stories is that I enjoy using my imagination - the 'television' in your mind - lol. When I get ideas for stories, I first think about the characters and the goals they want to achieve and how they're going to go about reaching the goals, which would of course, be the ending. Along the way, I add things: more characters, obstacles and dangers they have to face, etc. Again, it's using your imagination, which is virtually endless. If any aspiring writer really wants to achieve their aspirations in writing stories, poems, whatever, they can do it with the use of their imagination. If you apply your mind through the process of mixing imagination, dedication and desire, you can write any kind of story. I'm an amateur writer at the moment, but I aim to change that - hopefully in the near future. Good luck with your writing!

Answer 8

I somewhat would desire to respond to that throughout the time of my own way, because of the fact neither of those precisely applies to me (however the objective is to enhance into revealed and write professionally, that's not why I do it). I write because of the fact I would desire to. that's silly, yet writing is what I do and what i flow to do, and the only element i be attentive to i can and could do. i will do in spite of the fact that I would desire to do to enhance right into a author, and that i will proceed, all the mutually as writing. Writing is a element of me, no longer something much less. BQ1: i do no longer pay attention that very commonly, yet i be attentive to what you propose. i do no longer get bored to death in it because of the fact i be attentive to in yet in a different way and that i can argue against everybody who says that (I relish arguments of the main surprising varieties! Haha), yet i assume if I heard it extra, it may actual get bored to death in it, because of the fact it may be from people who do no longer understand and don't attempt to appreciate. And as Bob Dylan mentioned: do no longer criticize what you could no longer understand. BQ2: i do no longer somewhat prepare plenty, no longer intentionally, yet poetry and short thoughts furnish sturdy prepare! i'm consistently writing some thing, a different consistently interior the history or the concentration. And flash fiction is somewhat relaxing! Haha, I do exactly no longer do lots of it, regrettably. Cheers!

Answer 9

I love to write becuse I can escape from everything going on around me. Extroadinary things can and do happen in the world of writing, anything is possible. It gives me a place to let out my opinions and the nice thing is that theres nobody to disagree with me....
merry Christmas

Answer 10

(I write for fun, not professionally) I love to write because I get to create new things and get the stuff in my head out. It's so great to make up your own world, and to meet the people in it!

Answer 11

I have no idea why I love to write, and the truth is, I don't really care either. I suppose writing's just a part of me.