Why do you write?

[A_lost_sole]

Why do you write? Is it to take place of something missing in your personal life? Does writing allow you to free you inhibitions that you keep tucked away out of fear? Or does you writing help clear your mind by thinking of things that take place in a fictional setting?

 

[Catchalot]

Its nothing quite so deep.

I write because I enjoy creating something from nothing more than a thought or idea.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I can't help it. My mind, my very spirit, seethes with wandering thoughts in search of expression, like flat fishes, torn from the sea bed by a promiscuous drag net and hoping beyond hope for freedom, for release, to find their ways back home. Alas, when I give them expression, they seem fileted and boneless, no more than broiled amandine, or, perhaps, meunier, lifelessly laid out for some base gourmand to pleasure himself.

 

[StrangeLife]

For the same reason that I ran a marathon - to find out if I could.

 

[TxRad]

To get the damned stories out of my head. They get in the way of the voices.

Welcome to the AH by the way. If you weren't crazy when you got here, just wait a while.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I'm doing my best to help him along, Tx.

 

[A_Little_Show]

I have always needed creative outlets. I paint for fun, design and build for fun, play guitar for fun, write fiction for fun, write non-fiction professionally, teach professionally, and create computer software professionally. Most of my endeavors create something from almost nothing. It's empowering.

I write here to have a creative sexual outlet. For a variety of reasons, words empower expression of my sexual existence when I have no other practical outlet. I want to exist.

 

[SamScribble]

Yeah, what Tio said. Isn't that why we all write?

 

[mikoli5763]

No simple answer to this for me,

but I wanted to see if I could and had too much time on my hands when I first started. I was out of work, not having any luck finding work, and had the idea to try and write.
I wrote a story a day the first week and two or three a week for the next few months. I finally found a job and my time for writing decreased significantly. I have three stories not complete and an idea for the Halloween contest not started.
I enjoyed writing when I had time to give to it, but haven't had that kind of time lately. I can't "force" myself to write, especially after working all day. All of my past writing was done early in the AM and I don't have that option anymore.

 

[MSTarot]

Well, if I don't get the stories out of my head... the voices start reading them to me before I go to bed.

And then I can't sleep, nope not even a peep.


Fine... I write as a kind of depression therapy.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

A lost Sole...

Your suggested answers seemed a little cynical to me.

None of them represent anything even close to why I write here. Anyone who has written professionally will tell you that for sure, writing can be a very significant method of learning about organising thoughts. But that would be a very secondary reason, indeed perhaps even an unexpected side-effect, to do with why people write.

Were you intending to be cynical, or did you really want to know various people's motivations?

 

[RoyceConnors]

I write because I'm a storyteller. If I find a subject to write about, I have to tell it in depth and leave nothing out. I love the creativeness of taking an idea and making it into something tangible. It's like an artist staring at a blank canvas, I have to put something on it and make it art.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I write cuz most write shit and I'm tired of reading crap. I have the same attitude about cooking and car repairs.

 

[carlieplum]

Are you asking why people write, or why people write for Literotica?

I write because I need to pay the bills, and because I still get a jolt out of seeing my name in print, and because I like, on an existential level, the idea that I can learn something by reading and/or reporting and then rework it and teach it to someone else in print.

I write for here because my partner encouraged me to after hearing some of my "bedtime stories." It's enjoyable and it focuses my brain in different ways than nonfiction writing does.

 

[JKendallDane]

I write because I enjoy it.

I write because it gives me the ability to challenge myself.

I write because it permits me to fulfill fantasies.

I write because I can take something from my past and give it a different ending.

I write because the ego needs the stroke.

I write because somebody has to!

 

[horrorotica]

I write because I enjoy it.

I write because it gives me the ability to challenge myself.

I write because it permits me to fulfill fantasies.

I write because I can take something from my past and give it a different ending.

I write because the ego needs the stroke.

I write because somebody has to!

Ditto. Well said.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I write because nobody writes the stories I want to read.

 

[carlieplum]

I write because nobody writes the stories I want to read.

Ain't no kink like your own kink! ;-)

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I write cuz most write shit and I'm tired of reading crap. I have the same attitude about cooking and car repairs.

Tired of cooking crap, Jim? Try Fanny Farmer instead of farming fannies.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Ain't no kink like your own kink! ;-)

Imagine my surprise!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Tired of cooking crap, Jim? Try Fanny Farmer instead of farming fannies.

Poor lil TIO is sad cuz he got nobody to one-bomb.

Hey TIO why doncha do a HOW TO tutorial about your anonymous experiences.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Why do you write? Is it to take place of something missing in your personal life? Does writing allow you to free you inhibitions that you keep tucked away out of fear? Or does you writing help clear your mind by thinking of things that take place in a fictional setting?

Lotsa reasons.

Like several people here said - because the stories nag at me until I get them out. Like Stella said - because it's hard to find the sort of stories I want to read.

It's a way to connect with the people I love. My partner is my first reader for just about everything, and always has good suggestions. My girlfriend lives on another continent, so writing stories for her is a way to keep in touch.

It lets me connect with total strangers, sharing thoughts with people I've never met and probably never will meet.

And it lets me work out some of my thoughts and fears.

 

[hoo_hoo_boo]

Why do you write? Is it to take place of something missing in your personal life? Does writing allow you to free you inhibitions that you keep tucked away out of fear? Or does you writing help clear your mind by thinking of things that take place in a fictional setting?

When I was at school everything I wrote was very disjointed- to the extent I couldn't understand it. Though I was reasonably bright I had a problem, it was humiliating and I have since been determined to do some thing about it.

At first I wrote letters. My letters were unintelligible- much to the consternation of the recipients and embarrassment of me. I withdrew from that after some years and started writing children's stories. In these I had more time.

I married and we started having children. As each died it drove us further apart. We lost all of our children. A few years later she was diagnosed. I nursed her to the end, more than three years later.

After her death I was told all the deaths were attributable to her extreme vegetarianism, her refusal to ever be in sun and the subsequent lack of vitamin D. I was also told she’d always known and that her obsessive compulsive disorder, I knew nothing about, was responsible.

As some one said, when we love some one we trust them and can’t see what the rest of the world is getting in full technicolour. Basically, our relationship had been built on her lies. The rules of confidentiality made it impossible for me to be told while she was alive and I don’t think I’d have believed them if I had been.

A doctor suggested I write the story of us, about the sex and lack of it, her cheating, greed, selfishness, cruelty, narcissm..., basically the story of her. I wrote about the injustice of it all, it wasn't a happy story, it was therapy and I was back to writing.

A week later, I burned it, a symbolic attempt to get her out of my life, and wrote a story I was determined would be happy. It was a therapy for me. I continued to write to have something other than awful memories to think about. Erotica was deliciously rebellious but I continued with my other stories too. None of my stories are about her, that one was burnt.

As always, I try to improve my writing. It’s no where near perfect. I have never had my stories edited. I submit stories for feedback. I have submitted some here. I get more response from erotica, though the other stories don’t get nearly as much aggression as here. It’s not my whole life but it is a valued part of it. Soon, I hope to build a gallery for my art and some of the stories.

That’s why I try to write. All a bit stupid really.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Poor lil TIO is sad cuz he got nobody to one-bomb.

Hey TIO why doncha do a HOW TO tutorial about your anonymous experiences.

Sorry about the dig, Jimmy, but I couldn't resist the opening you left me.

But, seriously, about the one-bomb comment. I've addressed that before with you, and I can still re-assure you that I've never one-bombed any author here or anywhere else. If I find a work that bad, I ignore it, and if I find it good, I would never downgrade it because I didn't like the author. And I never post any comments anonymously; I always stand by what I say.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Sorry about the dig, Jimmy, but I couldn't resist the opening you left me.

But, seriously, about the one-bomb comment. I've addressed that before with you, and I can still re-assure you that I've never one-bombed any author here or anywhere else. If I find a work that bad, I ignore it, and if I find it good, I would never downgrade it because I didn't like the author. And I never post any comments anonymously; I always stand by what I say.

TIO youre a stinky dog turd.