What keeps you writing?

[Alex756]

OK never started a thread so hope I am doing it right.

Now I know everyone writes for differant reasons, but what keeps you writing?

Well I thought that would be a longer question but oh well, no sense padding it.

Alex756
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[Chicklet]

Nothing really keeps me writing = )

I write because I get so full of ideas (and caffine) that I have to do something or I'll burst. Every once in a while a whole* story is achieved.

Well I guess if something were keeping me writing it would be my need to tell dirty stories.











* - whole as defined by Chicklet which means maybe a fraction of the whole

 

[gauchecritic]

What keeps me writing is what started me writing.

I like to read stories like mine.

Gauche

 

[Croctden]

This will sound bad

For a long time before I started writing I used to daydream. Especially while waiting to fall asleep I would tell myself made up stories. Some of them were rather good I thought, but they never went anywhere and I forgot them. I started writing to record those ideas. I started writing erotica because I was horney. I still have voices in my head I guess.

 

[Alex756]

Re: This will sound bad

For a long time before I started writing I used to daydream. Especially while waiting to fall asleep I would tell myself made up stories. Some of them were rather good I thought, but they never went anywhere and I forgot them. I started writing to record those ideas. I started writing erotica because I was horney. I still have voices in my head I guess.

I don't think it sounds bad at all, I mean I do the same, cept I also do it while driving. I seem to end up driving alot in a truck with nothing but a radio to occupy my brain and it gets idle. I can see that being very similar to trying to fall asleep, just needing to get stuff completely thought before you can rest. I do alot of thinking about stories in bed, since its not anything stressful and my husband probbaly wouldn't enjoy me turning on the game cube when he's sound asleep

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[oggbashan]

I write because I HAVE to.

It's the voices in my head telling me they want particular stories written.

It is a real compulsion. Even if I knew no one would ever read what I have written I couldn't stop writing.

What is difficult is channelling that compulsion into readable stories. My first efforts were stream-of-consciousness stuff and totally unreadable.

I try to keep to the plan and the plot but the characters take over and then anything goes.

Og

 

[Invid Writer]

I write to teach. That's it. Plain and simple. Even when I write on Lit. (although on lit it is taking me longer to get to my point -- Give me a few more chapters)

But that's really it. I have a drive to make the world better and for now, that's how I'm doing it.

 

[Omni]

I write because I still cannot believe that I was ever able to do it with any success to begin with. I came to writing later in life. <laughs>
But, really my desire to keep doing it is the same one I have for reading a novel. To escape to another place, eluded life's trials for a bit, and for entertainment.



Omni

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I'll have to second what Gauche said. When I first came to Lit, I couldn't find the stories I wanted to read, so I started writing my own.

Now, however, it's more a matter of me liking the feeling of knowing that thousands of people are reading what I write... that, and my determination to beat MV at the Survivor contest!

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

I write because it's part of who I am. Writing has always gotten me through the most difficult periods in my life.

 

[English Lady]

well i have to join the daydreamers...my stories nearly always start out with me thinking through an idea,dreaming it,seeing it scene by scene in my imagination.

 

[pop_54]

Hmmmmmmmm

As a hobby, something to do with what little spare time I have, strictly amateur, never going to sell anything.

Also just like friend Omni, i was so bloody shocked that I could actually write something other people would want to read.

pops...........

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Lots of reasons:

I get stroked for it.

It's one of the few things I can do fairly well.

I'm a prisoner of my imagination.

I've read things that just knocked me out. I'd really like to be able to knock other people out.

Every so often I'll write something that does knock me out, and that knocks me out.

I like going in there and dealing with writerly problems.

I'm not all that much at home in the real world. Things don't work the way I'd like, life is random and hard, and I'll never have what I want, so I'd rather deal with a world where I control things, where people have simultaneous orgasms, strange women seduce me, sex mixes with magic and relighion, and things, if they don't make sense, at least have a sort of order. I guess that's called escapism.

---dr.M.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

It lowers the volume of the voices. Well, sometimes.

 

[Sabledrake]

I can't not write.

Sabledrake

 

[BlackSnake]

An idea that keeps a hard-on

 

[BlackSnake]

well i have to join the daydreamers...my stories nearly always start out with me thinking through an idea,dreaming it,seeing it scene by scene in my imagination.

Do the ideas keep you excited? If so, that's what I'm talking about.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

OK never started a thread so hope I am doing it right.

Now I know everyone writes for differant reasons, but what keeps you writing?

Is it just me, or are you asking a question here? Like why we write?
For me, it isn't a choice, it's what I do, and while I may not be so good at it, in fact, I just might suck at it in some people's opinions, it's who I am, and what I have to do to stay sane.
That the answer you wanted?

 

[Croctden]

Cool!!

Do the ideas keep you excited? If so, that's what I'm talking about.

I've started a movement

 

[Alex756]

Re: Re: What keeps you writing?

Is it just me, or are you asking a question here? Like why we write?
For me, it isn't a choice, it's what I do, and while I may not be so good at it, in fact, I just might suck at it in some people's opinions, it's who I am, and what I have to do to stay sane.
That the answer you wanted?

Well the question was the sentence with the question mark in it

"Now I know everyone writes for differant reasons, but what keeps you writing?"

And yes, that was the type of answer I was looking for. Afterall many people write, it seems most also stop sometime in high school or maybe a little latter, and few continue on to write.

~alex~
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