Why do you write?

[blazeofglory]

Writing is a delayed expression of feelings. It is a private affair. I write when I have nothing else to do, and of course at a moment when everyone distances himself or herself from me and I from them I turn to a place of seclusion. I need to communicate, and go across and when I fail to do it verbally I take to writing.

Writing may be a hobby to many others, and of course something through which egos swell.

In fact with writing I feel like living or else things will weigh heavy on me.

Yeah, writing comes up when people get tired of life people take to writing, something that can help overcome woes in life.

I want to know why one takes to writing.

[Chesterfield]

My reason is essentially the same. I'm confident in everything that I do, open-minded, etc, but I can't fully express my feelings in certain situations unless I write about it. However, I have so much going on in this head of mine that contributes to the common dilemma that many of us probably have--getting the ideas on paper. To think is to exist; to act is to live. ;)

[Sarasvati21]

I write to stay alive. I think if I didn't write, the atmospheric pressure would cease to work on me and I would come apart in every direction all at once.
Either that, or become very, very small, and lose myself forever under the weight of my thoughts.
My head would become too full, and there would be no room for the brain to carry out the functions necessary for basic life.
And writing is so much easier than speaking. It's a welcome relief from an oral world.

[AdoreroDio]

I agree- you ask why I write and I ask why don't you ask a better question- such as "why do you breath?"

It is the same to me- breathing and writing. Both come naturaly, both are necessary, and I don't choose to do them or not to I just do.
It''s quite simple really. Writing is truth, it is beauty, it is escape, it can be everything and nothing all at the same time, it is simple, yet complex, it can bring joy, or reveal sadness, poetry is just another form of life to me.

[blazeofglory]

You have a fair expression of ideas yet writing can not be as reflexive as breathing. Yes writing is so of the essence or bedrock of life. We have among us many writers who reckon life to be the sum & substance of life. Notwithstanding all said so far writing is still a deliberately voluntary act and its scope is constricted within this periphery.

[Umbilical]

Because I have an itch between my legs.


That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
And if you ask for an explanation, I can't give you one. Not because I'm dumb, but because I don't 'feel like writing' it.

[Shweb]

I write for those very reasons unknown to oneself as one is unknown to the world. Those tiny inklings and small urges that somehow some way get you through the day. I see writing as an inescapable form of expression and humanity that, despite all of our technological advances, we always seem to recede towards. Internet = emails. Cell phones = text messaging. I'm not a daily writer for that matter, yet it always seems to bring about a certain amount of peace and serenity to myself as an individual only trying to shake the rest off. I don't know, and I doubt I ever will.

[dramasnot6]

I write in an attempt to order what often feels like an uncontrollably chaotic world.

[Page Sniffer]

...the reasons I write have changed over the years. I grew up with a bigotted step-father, the rough, ignorant macho type that believed being a man was about killing things, be-littleing people (including his wife and step-son), tearing up stuff when he was drunk and pissed-off because he was aparently unable to communicate any other way. I never heard "I Love You", but then I know many kids don't hear it either. I still have lots to be thankful for, and learning to amuse myself by reading and drawing comforted me. I was an only kid, the kind that really had only one friend, and I stayed in my room a lot to stay away from my parents arguing and tearing up stuff.

As I got older, I loved books more, but I suppose the stigma of being creative kept me from expressing myself, because somewhere in the macho world that overshadowed me, it all kept me from developing intellectually. I was hungry for knowledge and knew there was more to life, but the bigotted, ultra-conservative angle did not encourage free thought.

I finally just started writing becuase it was coming out of me one way or another. I wrote for myself to start with. Then I took a college class and poured myself into the assigned essays and found myself liberated. My professor asked me to publish an essay I wrote in her class for the literary magazine for University of Maryland, Far-East Division, Okinawa, Japan while I was stationed there. It was about a friend of mine that was killed in Somalia.

I have a violent and self-destructive side, and a side that used to crave self-medication. Writing is a creative vent and healthy, so I write.

I write to purge myself of certain things. I write because it helps me to communicate with myself, to look inside myself. I strive to stay away from the common falacies that are present all around us, and that plague our media and politicians.

I write to acknowlege my own exsistence, viewpoints and observations, and to experience life more fully. I have a couple friends that we share our writings with each other, and am richer for having friends I can do that with. There are days I think I will go crazy if I don't write. There are days I write strictly for myself, because there are days when I think nobody else gives a crap, and do it for my own selfish pleasure.

[metin]

Writing grants me the chance to understand myself better.

[Captain_Kuchiki]

I tried writing when I was younger and found that I could do it well and keep doing it, so I did. Writing for me is a way to channel creativity, like how an intsrument channels your breath into music. I channel my own creativity for drawing cartoons, too, but I like writing as well. It's a way to make an entertaining and interesting art bit for anyone to enjoy.

[sofia82]

I write my thoughts and feelings, there are some thoughts, feelings that cannot be uttered and just written down ... I love writing telling the stories not just orally and in everyday words.
I think no one tolerates a person who is talking and talking over and over, just a paper. No one shares your solitude except paper... you can create a new world beyond this world ...

[Equality72521]

I write because it's natural for me. When I start to write, things just naturally flow. I think, therefore I write. Granted, when school gets around, I have to slim down in order to finish my work load, but I am always constantly writing because it just...flows. That's the only way I can think of putting it. I always getting random cravings to just write something. I could be in the middle of dinner with family or friends and I'll pull out a pen and start writing on a napkin or whatever I can write on. It's my addiction, my heroine, one could say.

[xtianfriborg13]

I write because doing such thing makes me happy. As simple as that.