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Why do you write?

mainly because i can. also it's fun, when i write something and it turns out not to be utter shit the feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction is really great
 
Honestly I don't know. It's not like it's essential to me anyway. Maybe because I can too, like the above poster.
 
I write to get rid of 'something' inside of me - sometimes without writing (something down) I feel as though I cannot live.

Then I write, and upon reflection I see clearly and know that I MUST go on - until the next time.
 
Jerry Atrick said:
I write because it keeps me sane :|
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Sometimes my writing drives me insane, or at least reflects my insanity. Especially when I'm manic (I have bipolar) - which actually really helps ward off block and keep the pages coming.

For me I write because I have to. Rilke said that if a poet doesn't have to write poetry, or else die, than he/she is not a poet.

If I knew why, I probably wouldn't do it enough or as well.
 
Like another writer already stated, I write because I have no one to talk to. Also, I cannot afford psychotherapy.
When I am with my friends, they just want to talk about their kids, jobs, celebrities, or whatever. I understand that is how most people are, but I like to have deeper conversations, sometimes. Writing gives me a safe, non-violent outlet for my anger and my pointless whining.
I'm a bit of a misanthrope who just cannot surrender my brain to the mindless mush of modern life.
In case you haven't guessed, I'm also a lousy poet who lasciviously loves alliteration.
 
sideshowjane said:
Like another writer already stated, I write because I have no one to talk to. Also, I cannot afford psychotherapy.
When I am with my friends, they just want to talk about their kids, jobs, celebrities, or whatever. I understand that is how most people are, but I like to have deeper conversations, sometimes. Writing gives me a safe, non-violent outlet for my anger and my pointless whining.
I'm a bit of a misanthrope who just cannot surrender my brain to the mindless mush of modern life.
In case you haven't guessed, I'm also a lousy poet who lasciviously loves alliteration.
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You should try blogs on BL. Works wonders for me to get things out---like you say, free alternative to paying someone to listen to you. "Mindless mush of modern life" I like:)
 
It relieves that pent up emotion that I have no other way of releasing or expressing. It's a weight off my shoulders and it keeps me feeling creative.
 
I write because I love writing. And also because it helps me to deal with thoughts and feelings and stuff like that. Also because I have imaginary worlds in my head anyway, so I might as well write them. I also really, really love reading what I write later.
It's mainly because I love writing. I always have.
 
I really need to stop fucking around and writing more.

I'm mad at me.
 
Like a few others I write because I don't really have anyone to talk to. Also because I must. If inspiration hits me and I don't use it I become feverish and agitated.
 
mothers communicating with grown children

My son and I are both up all night fairly often. He lives about an hour from me. We don't see each other much but we talk every night.
Tonight we were talking about my writing. Here is our last little discussion from this evening. We communicate better through the written word. Do other parents talk in depth to their adult kids online? Do they save the exchanges for posterity?

I thought someone in the words forum might want to comment.

Ugly: I write all the time.

Ugly's 31 y.o. son: typing seems a lot more efficient for that task than writing

Ugly: OMG!! You know I'm typing!!!. Writing doesn't mean you use a pencil!!! LOL!!! Come to think of it, how in the fuck did anything EVER get written!!!
Hand writing essays. Counting the words one by one. That was HELL. I love writing now, with blogs and all.

Ugly's son: just think about hand writing war and peace

Ugly: handwriting the BIBLE. Over and over and over and over for your life's work???

Ugly's son: thanks for monks and the scribes.

Ugly: Well, wordsmiths couldn't be out chasing girls and chokin chickens when they were writing all the time.

Ugly's son: by fucking candle light!

Ugly: Candles are cool, you rube. Poe would NEVER had been able to write what he did on a laptop.

Ugly's son: Picture of Dorian Gray would have been a million times better from a MacBook

Ugly: You love to piss off your mom! Dorian Gray couldn't have existed outside the zeitgeist of the time. A ton of stuff wouldn't have been written without flickering candlelight and oil-burning lamps. That's the atmosphere needed for some genres. Imagine no wall switch. No light anywhere in the house! Just a candle on the table giving off a circle of yellow light illuminating paper and pen.

Ugly's son: I stand by my belief. Dorian Gray would have been a million times better on a MacBook.


UglyYou stand by your WHAT? Beliefs, is it?
You stand by a rock and hard place as usual.
The Dorian Gray reference was classic... I lol'ed because it was funny and because Y O U quoting Oscar Wilde
to me reminds me of when you were a toddler...
you quoted He-Man and Skeletor with a three year old "accent" if you will. it was hilarious.
you always knew how to make me laugh.


Ugly's son Well when you were laughing we weren't getting into trouble so that was good. Also, it separated me from my brother and my sisters. I seems like I was the only one of us kids with the instinct to make you laugh.

Ugly: Yea I know. Being very serious around you was impossible for me if you turned to humor. Your daughter may be even funnier than you. At six she is a total riot!
Son... humor is the mask of wisdom. Wisdom is made easier to access with humor. <3
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not the end but I'm tired of writing.

With no hand gestures, facial expressions or audible changes in tone to queue us, how is it possible that we relate so richly and have so much fun "talking" about all the goofiest shit ever. I have only gotten to know this son as an adult, my peer, because of this medium.
 
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