Most people I've known since birth asked me this question. Why do I write? It seems absurd to answer certain query but perhaps very memorable. Whenever someone ask me this question, I answered them, "because its fun!" But really, why do a writer, such as me write different things in a certain/uncertain subject matter?
When I was in my highschool days, I hate writing and reading stuff. For me, its just a waste of time. But as I grew up and mature, I began thinking, "what would it be like to be a writer or an artist?" It is different and extinct, but quite unique! With that point-of-view, I began reading a lot of books and start searching and even making some short stories. I'm a very imaginative person, most of my friends told me so. But what is the sense of having this kind of imagination if I can't put it in a peice of paper and let other people read it.
For me, an imagination is a form of art, an art in mind which can't be criticize and making it your own. No one can dictate, control, or even desparage it. As long as you can craft such, you can make it as your own without even thinking of others. "I even imagined that I'm a long lost brother of a well-know star!"- presumptious but cool. A writer once told me that "a great writer can use any information he can get, but the basis of the writer's art is not his skill but his willingnss to write, his desire to write, in fact his inability not to write." which for me is totally true. As to think of it, the sense of having a skill is not just for you but for other people. On how to use it, in times of obstacles, challenges, difficulties, and even happiness. Writing is not an escape from reality. As a matter of fact, it is a plunge into reality. Writers are the one who have hope in the world; if you as a person doesn't have a hope, then don't mind writing. It would just be a waste of time.
Just remember, to those who aspired of being a writer, writing is a form of art, and the ones who write are the artist who perhaps can be a priest, or a kind of magician, or even a kind of scientist, fascinated to the meanings that lie beneath the surface of the world. Writing is a noble task, it's like exploring the meanings in life which is for me, a very noble act.
As of me, I write because it is meaningful. Its meaning may be in the violent, rather vicious process by which it is created. I write because it is a noble act, I for one is ordained to a noble task, that of making clear mysteries, or pointing out mysteries where a numbing and inaccurate simplicity has held power. I write because I want to explain, explain the things in my mind, argue, and apparently create a crazy action.
My story is its meaning, that is all. That for me, any short story can become a novel, and any novel can be converted back into a short story or into a poem. Reality for me is fluid and monstrous; packaging it up in as many shapes a possible, put names on it, publishing it in hard-cover, and maybe make it a movie someday. But the very important thing in writing, is your HEART, which drives me into an inspiraton. Which gives its true subject that write itself, and cannot be silenced.
"writers write, eventually; but first they feel."
