"The first thing you need to know is why you want to write."

I like creating plots. My plots are never complete if I don't write them, so I write. No other reason, I guess.

Several reasons:

1. At times, I become dissatisfied with what passes for entertainment today. I want to watch things I want to watch, and decided that I'd be better off making the kind of stories I want to watch myself.
2. I like the idea that someone, somewhere out there feels the same way, or agrees with me in what I'm writing. To find that connection people just can't find in normal conversation.
3. I like the idea of making a new world out of just pen/ pencil. Out of the chaos inside my head. Sometimes the thoughts insist I write them down.

I write because my mind comes up with characters all the time, and if I don't command them to do something, I'll probably lose my mind.

Because it's fun. Because I look and look for something with these particular qualities, and can't find it, and say to myself "Well, I'll just have to write it myself, then!"

I write to have "snapshots" of how I was at a certain point in my life. Sometime, maybe 10 years later, I can look back and think, "wow. what the heck was I on as a child." LOL

But another reason is that I constantly hear everyone else's opinion on different issues, from politics to religion to pop culture, and writing is my way of expressing my thoughts on such subjects. Through fiction, I say how I feel about reality.

Aww, The Emerald Dragon stole my response!

Although I'm decently serious in borrowing that Asimov chestnut. Stories have never stopped coming from me. My mind is never silent; my internal monologue, if it is not coming up with stories and characters, is dreaming of articles or poems or things that could be said. Turns of phrase build up inside me. If I didn't give these ideas some outlet, I'd probably be comitted to a home.

I write because I was asked to. Seriously, I did a lot of stuff for school assignments, and on impulse, I wrote a story for the TV Tropes Erofic Contest, but I wasn't really motivated to write for writing's sake. Then I posted my entry for the Erofic Contest on Literotica, and I got this email:

I was surprised to realize how good I felt, and I had another idea in my head already, something about a dragon . . .

(I also got a hell of a lot of comments telling me that the story was disgusting and I should go fuck off, but the good comments felt more important to me than the bad ones.)

edited 28th Aug '11 4:39:16 PM by feotakahari

People write because they want to know how God feels.

^ If I was God, I would never do to anyone some of the things I've done to my characters.

And yet, reality is still infinitely more cruel.

^ But it's all about the POWER! Bwahahahaha! >.>

I write for money, fame, and all the other things they say to never write for.

I started writing because my elementary school teacher praised an essay I wrote. At this point, I simply can't imagine not writing. I sometimes sit around and wonder how could it possibly be that most people don't write.

I write because it's fun, I like stringing words and sounds together, I like creating characters and having them interact and I write to communicate. Think that's it but there's probably more if I think about it.

Because I seek to create something that I can/could/would enjoy reading myself.

Amusement, too, and of course the classic reason: If I didn't, I'd drive myself mad.

edited 29th Aug '11 5:26:45 PM by JHM

I have always created stories inside my head for as long as I can remember. If I especially love an idea, I write it.

It's a fun hobby to craft worlds and design plot and entertain others with it.

Because I want to tell an unique story born from my (essentially quite limited) talents and imagination.

As far back as I can remember, I was a voracious reader. My dad always tells how I psyched out one of his customers with my reading ability; the customer thought that I just looked at the words and memorized them, but I could actually read and understand them.

When I was a bit older, I started writing, and got a few prizes from elementary school.

When I got into video games, I found much more enjoyment in games that had a rich story, usually passing over games that might have been well developed but didn't have a gripping enough story. WoW was a big one for me. The same held true for me when I started watching anime.

Writing always came easy to me, and when I sat down to write creatively, I fell in love with it. Even more so when I managed to tie in aspects and principles of alchemy to the narrative process.

The rest is history. I write because I'm occasionally alright at it.

I want to write because I feel like I have a story that I want to tell and share with others. Be it fanfic or something entirely my own, I think that all I want to do is give readers another world to explore and get into. :3

I only write because ideas never leave me alone when I read...

that, and out of all the fanfics that have read, none have ever really done a good job with battles, and I mean not being wordy, but getting right to the action, a little bit of description of the battlefield, and the tactics, none have ever really done a good job with that.

I write because I want to express myself. I'm inspired and I need to get that inspiration out of my system.