Watch me begin nearly every paragraph with I.
The question was posed: Why do you write? And I didn't so much reply as babble about writing, which I seem to be doing a lot of lately. But it also makes me curious why do you write. Is it for the same reasons as I?
This is, without terribly much though put into it (which is probably good, gut reaction and all that) why I do:
I write for myself mostly, to create the sort of stories I want to see, though most of them are more snippets than stories, and because I get these ideas and scenarios in my head and I have to preserve them. I have to write them down. My life if full of notebooks with random bits of dialog and description that may or may not someday be worked into some story or other. I've always written stories for as long as I can remember but though I love (and think I'm at least passably good at) character development and description I have yet to come up with a plot that I've followed all the way through to the end instead of realizing halfway through that it's stupid and my writing style has changed.
I went through a period of not writing anything at all a couple of years back and I think I came out the other side better for it. I think it somehow changed my perspective on writing and allowed me to do it just for myself and not with any real goal in mind. (Though I do have this vague plan in the back of my mind that someday, ten years from now, I'll finish something that's a novel I'm really happy with and somehow get it published. But if that never happens that's just fine with me.)
I think I've falling in to writing fan fiction because it removes my I can't come up with a lasting plot problem and lets me just play with places and characters. And I've fallen into HP in particular, I think, because just about everything I've ever written could be considered fantasy of some sort. Fanfic is practice to me.
I have no desire to write professionally, my writing is so based around mood that I'm not sure I could perform on demand and I don't really want to try. Writing is like an escape for me, something that has nothing to do with what I actually do for a living so it's a nice change.
But why do I really write? I write for those three sentences in the middle of so many others that I sometimes come across when rereading something or other that I can't quite remember actually writing, but I know I did and when I read them I can't help but think. Wow, that's good.
This is, without terribly much though put into it (which is probably good, gut reaction and all that) why I do:
I write for myself mostly, to create the sort of stories I want to see, though most of them are more snippets than stories, and because I get these ideas and scenarios in my head and I have to preserve them. I have to write them down. My life if full of notebooks with random bits of dialog and description that may or may not someday be worked into some story or other. I've always written stories for as long as I can remember but though I love (and think I'm at least passably good at) character development and description I have yet to come up with a plot that I've followed all the way through to the end instead of realizing halfway through that it's stupid and my writing style has changed.
I went through a period of not writing anything at all a couple of years back and I think I came out the other side better for it. I think it somehow changed my perspective on writing and allowed me to do it just for myself and not with any real goal in mind. (Though I do have this vague plan in the back of my mind that someday, ten years from now, I'll finish something that's a novel I'm really happy with and somehow get it published. But if that never happens that's just fine with me.)
I think I've falling in to writing fan fiction because it removes my I can't come up with a lasting plot problem and lets me just play with places and characters. And I've fallen into HP in particular, I think, because just about everything I've ever written could be considered fantasy of some sort. Fanfic is practice to me.
I have no desire to write professionally, my writing is so based around mood that I'm not sure I could perform on demand and I don't really want to try. Writing is like an escape for me, something that has nothing to do with what I actually do for a living so it's a nice change.
But why do I really write? I write for those three sentences in the middle of so many others that I sometimes come across when rereading something or other that I can't quite remember actually writing, but I know I did and when I read them I can't help but think. Wow, that's good.