Writing Passionates discussion
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Why do you write?
I guess probably because when I was younger I hated reading. Because of that I had an overactive imagination so that I could entertain myself. Eventually i just started typing my ideas up. Now I love reading which works well for my overactive imagination books also help me get ideas. I also think I love writing because I can have physical evidence of what i think of in my mind, writing also helps me get all the deatails that maybe weren't in my day dream or whatever.
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And there is something about creating things with your imagination.
Having people read and like it is only a bonus.
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Well if i had to sum it up ... Why do I write? Because I love it! Of course it's more complicated than that. But like I said. I don't have the time to write it all down right now. XD
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Oh I just dug up the old topic that had this same question and found my reply to that. So here it is, quote:
I write because it's "in my blood..." It's my passion, and I couldn't live without it. It's my spark in life, my obsession. I'd shimmer away and die if I couldn't write. It's more that I have to write then I want to- the mind burns ideas into my fingers, making them fly across the keyboard, whether I want them to or not...it's sort of like a disease for me, but a disease that I enjoy having.
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Yeah...that basically sums it up. Not to mention the fact that I LOVE it. :D
In that other discussion, Kenzie compared it to a drug, which is a really, really good metaphor. I feel that way too; writing is a drug. :D A GOOD one, of course. ;D
Hahahaha, I like that idea about comparing it to a drug. I'm not really a novelist, I write flash fiction more than I do long stories. Writing is my way of saying how I feel... When I'm agree, writing is the only way I can vent. I guess that's why I haven't succeeded in writing more than flash fiction -- because I only write my emotion at that certain moment, and expound on it. My writing is like my theater stage (since I like acting) where I can be what I want to be, and I can make the ending as tragic or as happy as I want them to be. But most of the time, the characters grab the pen from me and end the stories for themselves! Tsk tsk. lol
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Well actually, usually I compare writing with marriage. Sometimes you get frustrated with it, and fight with it, but in the end you know you'll always love it! ♥ ;D
Yeah, writing is also my way of understanding people and venting my emotions. My friends have so many larger issues than me but I still have issues writing is my way of venting without having to kick people when their already down(since whenever I have problems all my friends that I would tell things to always have issues IT SUCKS!). As far as understanding people goes, I never quite understand the severity of their issues until I write it out exaggertated in my writing then I get it.
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But Brigid, you could also have been comparing writing to friendship by what you said. I mean, I have been about ready to tear just about every one of my friend's throats out at one point or another. Well, not Mckenzie... and I haven't been friends with the people I met this year long enough.
But at the same time, I love my friends, and I pretty much always will. :D
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yeah ... i guess friendship would work too. i just use marriage cuz it's a lifetime commitment, like writing is. at least, for me. ;D haha. and unfortunately, friendships don't usually last for a lifetime. actually marriage doesn't always last either ... hmm.
GAAAH WHATEVER!! NO ANALOGY IS PERFECT!!!!
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I write becuz I LOVE it. Creating things that people will potentially read makes me so happy, esp. when I love it ;)
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I think that I write because writing helps me to explore thoughts...ideas...it makes the thoughts...ideas...physical so that when someone else reads what I have written they can share the thought with me. I find that when I start to write the idea is general. As I write more and I slow the scene down and step into my characters dissecting them, trying to convey their experiences in a very complete way that it deepens my understanding of the idea...of the thoughts...of the characters.
Sometimes I write to find out what happens next in the fantasy that is in my mind. When I was writing His Perfect Submissive I started out with only a vague idea about what would happen in the book and so in writing it I honed the experience for myself as well as for the eventual readers who would read it after it was published.
When I write there is usually something I want to say as well...a message...a theme...
With His Perfect SubmissiveI wanted to say that not all dominant men are jerks...not all submissive women are doormats. That D/s relationships can be very nurturing, warm, caring.
So I guess, summing it up, I write to communicate, to share, to express thoughts and feelings, to create. I write because I love to write for all of the reasons mentioned above.
hard question. why do i write? hmmm... well, i have trouble sleeping and i stay up until like 2am cuz i just think about too much stuff. i decided to write down my thoughts and eventually it developed into stories.
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good job u guys!!!brigid it was that injection story that was the nanowrimo winner? did u put the rest of it online? IM GONNA READ IT ASAP!!!
I put mine on, prob. really stupid cause it's a very bad rough. But still . . . i'll work on it in the near future.
To message 10: You haven't? Darn, I guess I have to work harder on that. LOL JK! So, this question. UGH! Okay, I can't really answer this question. It's too hard. But I'll try.
Why I write
Writing is not something I do on a whim, or because I feel like it. Writing is my life.
When I wake up in the morning I don't spend it wondering if I'm going to get homework, or what I'm going to have for lunch. I wake up wondering what will spark my creative juices and get my writing engine moving.
I'm constantly thinking about it. Almost all of my time I'm absorbed in my stories.
Like, take today for instance. I was riding home in the car from my grandma's, the time I didn't spend sleeping (hey, I was tired!) I was thinking over my story. Am I sure I want Dawn to do that? And she has a sister? What? Carter! What are you doing!
And I truthfully think writing isn't something I do, it's what I am. Well, what makes me ... (for lack of a better word) me!
Most people think, "Oh, writing's just something people do when they don't want to do a real job."
Yeah, sure. Let's see you write and not lose your mind, or have your will bent by your character.
I'm sure all the other authors, aspriring authors, or writers in general can testify that the characters they create become part of them.
When I lay in my bed at night I close my eyes and see scenes. Dawn and Carter discussing Oreos, Daniel ticking of Andrea, Charlie making some stupid move that will probably put Max, Lucas, Julie, and Sam's lives in danger.
I can't shut my mind off to this stuff. It floods into my brain and kills me until I drag myself over to the keyboard and type.
On the days where I don't write, I become moody and short with people (like this weekend) and walk around as if dead. "On the world, but not in it."
You ask why I write.
The simple answer.
I wouldn't be who I am without it.
And because it's my drug. And it's too adicting to stop.LOL XD
yah i know im ADDICTED TO WRITING!!! :D
With me its not an addiction. Yet.My ideas blossom in my head and they are just as real for me as the rest of my life. My characters come from i dont know where but they are real too. I have to make them real on paper because if i dont, eventualy they wither and die, like flowers that die before anyone sees them. I dont really care if anyone else reads what i write. i just have to give life to all the things in my head that are waiting to be born.
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I think I couldn't sleep for 2 hours last night was because I was thinking of new story ideas. . . but i'm not positive.
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lol. worse than me then? XD
Yeah. You're right Brigid. No one who's not a writer ever understands what it's like. It's so hard dealing with my family 'cause no one gets it.
Yeah, some people think it's crazy. Well I guess it pretty much is, really. But everyone gets crazy over the things they love. ;)
my mom is killing me cuz i havent getten offmy butt and gone done sumthing active or whatever. its not like i dont want to be active, i just want to write. if i could run while i wrote, which i cant, i would do it.
i think i am crazy.
ha that sounds sorta random. oh well i am random.
i think i am crazy.
ha that sounds sorta random. oh well i am random.
My family understands that I love to write, but I don't think they get that I do have to spend more than 1 hour on the computer to do so. And with all the laziness stuff . . . okay I admit it, it's true, but every once in awhile I do something. It's just hard in a new neighborhood. . .
I do it for a variety of reasons: to destress, to have a creative outlet, to be a legal way to handle frustration...:P Yeah.
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And whenever I tell my friends that I'm writing a novel, they always stare at me strangely and go, "Are you crazy?" And there's no way I can reply to that, because nothing I say can make they understand what writing is to me, and how THEY'RE crazy for not having writing control their lives.
It's the same story for me, too...my mom's always like, "stop being so lazy! Stop sitting at the computer all the time, it's all you do!" She doesn't get it! Argh. >:(
YEAH I KNOW!!!
Ug, i don't even tell my friends that I like to write. I only tell them if I trust them and if they actually understand it.
Amazingly, they actually like my story, and my friend said I "inspired" her to write her own story.
Ug, i don't even tell my friends that I like to write. I only tell them if I trust them and if they actually understand it.
Amazingly, they actually like my story, and my friend said I "inspired" her to write her own story.
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LOL!Well here is what I discovered today: I like words! I like using them, I like spelling them, I like figuring out what sentences mean, i like words!
My most favorite use of all is using words in sentences to describe something so that people see it my way! Like Suzi!
Words are beautiful. They put meaning into everything, they can make you see an image. They are also terrible. They can cut you worse than any weapon.Books are beautiful. They blossom from one word, becoming a story about anything, anything is possible in a story. And books put stories in physical form. Books are dangerous. If something is read in a book labeled non fiction, it is automatically true. If there is a misprint, a whole idea can be altered. The written word can be seen in different ways.
Writers create. Writers destroy. Writers cry, laugh, smile, sigh, and frown with their characters. Not only do writers live their own lives, they live their characters' lives. Once a writer starts writing, they can't stop. Everything becomes a story.
Why, just the other day I found myself wondering, in science, what would happen if there was a humongous earthquake, so big the whole world felt it, and a story started blossoming.
In conclusion, why do I write? I don't. I create. I destroy. I write whole books, then destroy them, knowing, or rather thinking, that it's not good enough. Never good enough. I am an artist. I am a musician. I am a writer. And after the first time I weaved on the loom of storytelling, I knew it was what I wanted to do. It's like a drug, it's like a lover, it's like a...well, as Brigid said, there's no accurate simile for it.
Writing is not something you start and stop. You can't just end it, and if you do, it would be like losing a limb. There would be an empty hole there, that, even filled with a replacement, wouldn't suffice.
lolz. But its true, writing is nice when I'm too upset to sit up straight and write. I read. When I'm mad about something stupid or even nothing at all I can create a story where my feeling is logical (ie: I'm mad at someone for sitting in a chair. My character however can be mad over a girl stealing her fiance, hypnotizing him, and then trying to take over the world)
Wow Riley, I liked what you said. It pretty much hit it spot on. :)
And I want toast, that's exactly how I write too. haha
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Holy crap. that hit it right on the spot Riley.
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I feel like I should give more thought as to why I write. Hmm ... I'll think on this one.
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Why do you write? What is it in writing that makes you love it? What drives you to write? What is your inspiration, where do you draw your ideas from?
:)I'm looking forward to your answers! This could be interesting! ;)