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Why Do You Write?
Spectacular Sameth:
I write to get my mind uncluttered. See, the way I see my writing is like this: over the course of the years I took things and stored them in my attic (or head) and when I try to go up there and find something, all I see is boxes full of things I don't need. How the hell does it multiply like that? Writing is my way of taking the stuff I don't need out, box it up, and sell it in a garage sale.
To add to this metaphor, people will (hopefully) buy these thoughts and use them, but when they do, they won't understand my attachment to them or why I had them in the first place. Just like things you get at a garage sale.
Cyclone Jack:
I write because it's one of the ways that my mind analyzes and makes sense of the world. I write all the time, in my head. Putting the stories that result into electronic and paper form is simply the logical outcome of my continuous, ongoing observation and analysis of the big, mysterious world around me. :)
Rabidpancakes:
I write to escape from reality for a few minutes a day and put my ideas and beleifs into something real. I also do it so one day I can be legendary. Naw, I already am Legendary, just need to get off the road for a while.
Uilos:
I asked someone this question once, she replied simply, and in a matter that reminded me of Steve Zissou, "Revenge"
bless her zombie bones...
I see the scene in crystal quality in my head. Everytime I finish a scene, unless I'm not satisfied with it, it more or less is gone from my vision, because it's not there anymore, it's on the page. I'm pouring my scene out onto the page
TragicKingdom:
This may sound like a high-brow repsonse, but I write to make points with the story serving a giant exclamation mark.
One of my books was about vanity, another one was about TV, my newest is about underprivledge. I start with a point I'm trying to make and I build a story around it. It always works.
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