Why do YOU write?

If you're a writer, you don't have to grow up. Technically, I'll be turning twenty in less than two months, but in reality, I've grown up to the age of twelve.

Because I can
Because the blank page is there

I write because my emotions inspire me and I'll never get to sleep otherwise.

Because it's something I can be obsessive compulsive about!

*grabs computer* MY PRECIOUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS....................

WHOHOOOOO!!! I'M OBSESIVE COMPULSIVE TOO!!! Porbably. At least I think I am.
I'm also obsessive complusive about scribbling ... and my pencils being in the right order.

I started writing because i wanted to write like David Eddings, but once i got into it, had my own style and ideas, i found i could not stop writing. It's a way to go into a world that is total my own, where i know everyone, just a place of escape really. I write because i can.

I WRITE BECAUSE I WANT TO.

THE END.

I write for so many reason I don't know what to write down here.

I think partly because I always have written, it would be weird maybe even impossible to quit writing.

I write because I have so many ideas in my head that I need to write down! Most of them I never manage to finish, but the ones I do, is pretty rubbish! Oh well! xP

I actually hate the actual writing. I only do it because I like reading over what I've written and making little nitpicks.

And, like many, I would go totally insane if I didn't write anything down.

Because I have an overactive imagination and if I don't get at least some of my ideas out my head will explode. And because I like to tell stories. And because so many things inspire me nowdays all it takes is a spark and I get the flame going if you know what i mean.

Oh my word Calibur that is like totally me~!
only i write cause if i dont i keep watching, yes watching, my story playing over and over in my head,
my fingertips burn, my hands shake, and my eyes get glazed over no joke.
then when i get really into writing, i type, super fast like 100 words a minute, no joke, i got timmed.
and then i cant sit still and get all jumpy in my seat and then when i'm finished writing i feel calm,
but if i cant write i get hyper and its like everything in the world is bottled up inside me and it all wants out,
people say i act like i have ADHD, its awsome....*smiles*
ahhhh, thw joy of a million words inside my mind.

I write because my Mum used to tell me loads of stories but after she died I use to hate books for some reason. Now whenever I write I think about her and get inspiration from her stories.

Personally, I think there's two types of people....the writers and the non writers. Either you like to write, or you don't. You can't teach the joy, or the want to write, you have to be born with that. But you can teach how to improve in your writing. I definitely have the writing bug.

I grew up watching musicals (Annie, Grease, Wizard of Oz) and I wanted so badly to do that. So when I was in the 5th grade, I was all excited that I could try out for the middle school play. I didn't get a role. I was heartbroken. So then I came up with this plan, I will write, direct and star in my own play, cause then no one could tell me I can't act in it. Well, that didn't work out either. I wrote my first play in the fifth grade. I remember I worked so hard on that, and I was so dang proud of it and I couldn't wait to put it on and watch it come alive. My friends never showed up for any practices. It wasn't working out, and I tried for two summers. I again was heartbroken.

But now, that I look back at it, I don't think that happened to get me to be a director, or an actor. It was to get me writing. After that I wanted to write all the time. I loved it. Since then I wrote (Ok, started, and a ton more ideas) for like 6 plays. Plus I just wrote my first actual story a couple weeks ago, and I loved it. (I always thought stories would be harder to write, but I found they are easier.)

I still have a wild dream, though. I want to win an award for my writing. I think it would be soo cool if one of my scripts was made into a movie and I won an Oscar, or if one of my scripts was made into a play/ musical on Broadway and I won a Tony. I still want to see a play that I wrote come alive. I want to write something that has made an impact on at least one person's life, and I could say "Wow, I wrote that!". To me, that's my ultimate dream, to move someone, to get them thinking about something in a way that they never thought of before.

That's why I write. I want to leave this world with something that could change someone. And I never want to stop.

~Darci

Deep.

That's really cool though...most of us just right because we need to, not for other people.