For all my fellow writers, as the title says, what is your reasoning for writing? For me, personally, it's a good way to pass the time I have way too much free time Plus, writing just kind of helps me forget things for a while.
I do it to relax and to distract myself from the chaos of the normal world everything else that I have to do.
I write because I have a lot of ideas in my head... and if I don't write them down, I forget. And I enjoy writing; it's especially satisfying to finish writing a story or chapter, and what really makes it worth doing is the feedback I get.
I never thought I'd take up writing as a hobby. When I was in high school and during the summer; I frequently babysat two girls of this one family whose parents went out to dinner/got together with friends and didn't come home until eleven or midnight. I'd feed them at 7, put them to bed around nine and have all this time of doing practically nothing but watch television. That got bored really quick since most of the shows I follow don't air new eps during the summertime. With their permission, I was allowed to go onto the husband's computer in his office after finishing the above chores and log in as a guest. After reading a few fanfictions online, I stumbled upon fanfiction.net. Signed up and used Microsoft Word to write and publish stories while waiting for the parents to come back.
I do it because idea's come to my mind. But I don't write because I forget them, I write because I think about them. Often times, I think about an idea for months. I spend hour thinking about my ideas usually because I was bored out of my mind waiting for class to start or because class was on things I already knew. After I spent some time thinking about these ideas, I would start writing them. I put so much energy into thinking about them I didn't want the idea to be lost. So on one bored summer day, I started writing. I post my works simply as an after thought. Most of my writing is so my stories that I come up with don't get lost in time.
I have so many ideas in my head, I can barely keep them contained. So I tend to write a lot of short stories that I'm too ashamed to ever show to the Internet. But I do tend to use most of those ideas for better, more comprehensible stories.
Because I love to create things, what I like to create is stories, and the best way to do so, is to write, because I have so many stories to tell.
It helps me process life, helps me sort through philosophical questions I'm wrestling with. What is the right thing to do in a certain situation? What's the best way to have an important conversation with somebody? Being creative--even if it's just writing a goofy story--puts me in a mode where I can think creatively in other areas of my life, too, like in relationships. Plus it's just fun. I think imagination doesn't need a reason.
Edit: Whoa, my smiley turned into a Mesprit--Mesprit, right? One of those Gen 4 Lake Trio guys? Edit-to-the-edit: Whoops, accidentally hit reply instead of Edit. My bad!
I write because my imagination usually combines with my beliefs leading to a desire to express them. The stories I write are the method that I express that. That's why I write. A desire to tell a story I believe in.
The rare times I do write is to get ideas that have been building in my mind out, and these ideas are usually beyond my current artistic abilities. I tend to abandon a lot of works though... whoops.
