What motivates you to write?

[Eldoria]

I simply channel the inner voices that keep calling out to me. These inner voices can take many forms: injustice, inequality, helplessness, depression, unrequited love, betrayal, and even the wounds of a silenced victim. I feel anxious because these voices disturb my thoughts. Therefore, I channel these voices into fiction, hoping they will have a place to speak outside of my head.

 

[DireBadger]

I don't write. Because, I'm a reader that always put hostage friendly situation on Author's who is ruining my favorite story.

So basically you are trolling writers?

Well, at least you are an honest troll.

 

[Wednesdayschild]

I wrote as a child after moving from the countryside to a town. I hated living there and was always looking for a way out. The school I had been at was so good that I mourned leaving it, and the new school was a horrible place for me. At first, I had to deal with being bullied and was fortunate to grow considerably in the first year I was there. Then the bullying stopped.

But I played truant at school and found quiet cafés where I could sit in the corner and write. I was found out, of course, and was sent to the school psychologist, who said I was bored. But things didn't change, and so when I left school, I took on a boring job, then another, and in the end, contrary to my parents' wishes, I joined the army, hoping to get a posting abroad.

My commanding officers read what I was writing and advised me to leave the army, which I did, and after ending up in nursing, I started writing again. Since then, I've been writing profusely and just haven't had the money for an editor so that I could get published. I've been publishing on Substack for some time, but I write now as therapy to cope with this crazy old world.

 

[Max02]

I simply channel the inner voices that keep calling out to me. These inner voices can take many forms: injustice, inequality, helplessness, depression, unrequited love, betrayal, and even the wounds of a silenced victim. I feel anxious because these voices disturb my thoughts. Therefore, I channel these voices into fiction, hoping they will have a place to speak outside of my head.

This is a rather poetic way of putting it.

 

[DireBadger]

writing is work. If it isn't work, you might as well just use paper to wipe your butt, you'll wind up with a better result.

 

[Edenc2708]

I was too immersed in my own story and got lost inside it. I want to explore it together with my character and see how it ends.

 

[sandianchong]

I have already passed the stage of total immersion. Now, the only two motivations that can drive my creative work are:
1. The income generated by the works.
2. The traffic data brought by the works.
These two points can also be regarded as positive incentives.

 

[VanVeleca]

If I can't find the exact story I want to read written by someone else, I'll have no choice but to make that exact one then!

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

I'm recently retired, writing a novel is on my bucket list, so here I am

That said, what I write now I consider practice. I wrote short stories and a short novella when I was younger, but left that all behind and was in the military for 24 years.

Now, I am retired, can survive off my pension and small lawn care business I own, so for me this is my PTSD Therapy, my creative outlet I had denied for so long.

I write so I am not drinking heavily, doing drugs, or making bad decisions a man in their 40s has no business to be doing. It is a hobby that cost me nothing but brain power. And one that if I get to the point I am good enough, I could monetize. That isn't today, and tomorrow isn't likely either. But someday I might.

And if not, it is not a huge deal. I will write for myself, and my readers, because I am fortunate enough to be in a position to do so.

 

[Max02]

I write so I am not drinking heavily, doing drugs, or making bad decisions a man in their 40s has no business to be doing. It is a hobby that cost me nothing but brain power. And one that if I get to the point I am good enough, I could monetize. That isn't today, and tomorrow isn't likely either. But someday I might.

I'm not retired, but I empathize with the feeling here. Writing may be a good way to relieve tension that costs nothing and exercises the brain.

As a story becomes a personal obsession to you, almost as if you were in the presence of the characters, you tend to forget everything else. And you understand that you'll only create something meaningful with these characters through effort. So the hobby becomes a job, but the job is still a hobby, and by bringing you pleasure, it's entirely justified. If you go further, and start making money through writing, then you're literally combining business with pleasure.

 

[V8485]

Trying to find something through I lost but got no clue what it is.

Also putting out what I want to see. Exploring topic that that interest me.