What's your motivation for becoming an author?

[McPhoenixDavid]

I write because there are entire worlds inside me that refuse to stay quiet.

I want to shape them with my own hands, give them breath, let them walk around and ruin things and fall in love and make mistakes. I want to feel that little spark when a scene lands exactly the way I imagined it. I want to watch a reader pause for a moment because a sentence hit them in a way they didn’t expect.

Yes, tips are great and appreciated but even so, more selfishly, I want to leave something behind that feels undeniably mine. A voice, a feeling, a story that someone remembers long after they’ve closed the book. I want to create something that outlives the moment I wrote it... something that reaches people I’ll never meet, in places I’ll never go.

That’s what pulls me toward writing every time; the quiet, stubborn desire to turn my inner world into something real.

Why do you write?​

 

[Maelstrom556]

Pretty much what you said, except put less eloquently. I've got stories I wanna put out there and hope some other people will enjoy them.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

I ran out of reading material for my specific niche sub-genre. Thought, well, shit, I'll do it myself.
Plus, I was always looking for an excuse to take up writing again after miserably failing a decade ago because I had a hole in my brain.
The ozone layer is still deteriorating in my head, but that's besides the point.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

There are stories that want to be told. Some choose me as their vessel. Who am I to say "no"?

(Also, it may be in my blood - dad's dad hated to write, but was a storyteller in every other sense of the word. He was orphaned at an early age, and once told a tale of the fire that claimed his parents - it also burned down the local church, on the first day of December. They were able to get the building repaired by the twentieth, but the hymnals were all destroyed. Then a local pharmacist offered some copies he had in storage, and they were all ready for Christmas Eve... Until they read the first hymn:
"Hark the herald angels sing,
Fix some pills, they're just the thing.
Two for man and one for Child,
God and sinners reconciled."
Dad believed that story until his sister showed him the joke book their dad got it from... from that point on, dad knew to take ANYTHING his father said with several grains of salt...).

 

[Eldoria]

Motivations for writing fiction:
1. To leave an existential mark on the world.
2. To leave a historical record of forgotten crimes against humanity in the form of symbolic narratives.
3. To give a voice to victims ignored by the real world, especially oppressed groups, women, and children.
4. To start a new sub-genre trend: ideological-philosophical dark fantasy with motherhood as the center of narrative conflict.
5. To channel inner anxieties that have haunted the mind for years.
6. To provide ethical social criticism through narrative.
7. To entertain readers within ethical boundaries.

 

[L1aei]

I'm bored.

 

[Akaichi]

Nothing that grand. I was just bored out of my mind. Most of the novels I read were just stupid, so I decided that I can do better!

 

[J_Win]

Because I can

Ngl, you kinda already expressed most authors’ sentiments

 

[PamperedDuchess]

1. Sometimes, a story appears in my mind that needs to be told. I do my best to oblige. The ending is not always clear.

2. The world needs something I can provide.

3. Storytellers are not just the entertainers of the masses since time immemorial. Storytellers have shaped the course of history and shown us who we are as humans -- for better or for worse. It is my burden and my gift to be one of these souls.

4. To tell more stories with women at the helm (whether or not they started out that way).

...and so many other reasons already stated in this thread.

 

[CinnaSloth]

I write because I used to draw, -but everything changed when the fire nation attacked, and now, I can't draw anymore.
(Long story with an Ex, and health issues, and a strong emotional story arc that is.. actually really bland. etc etc yap yap.)
So I write.

 

[MFontana]

I write because there are entire worlds inside me that refuse to stay quiet.

I want to shape them with my own hands, give them breath, let them walk around and ruin things and fall in love and make mistakes. I want to feel that little spark when a scene lands exactly the way I imagined it. I want to watch a reader pause for a moment because a sentence hit them in a way they didn’t expect.

Yes, tips are great and appreciated but even so, more selfishly, I want to leave something behind that feels undeniably mine. A voice, a feeling, a story that someone remembers long after they’ve closed the book. I want to create something that outlives the moment I wrote it... something that reaches people I’ll never meet, in places I’ll never go.

That’s what pulls me toward writing every time; the quiet, stubborn desire to turn my inner world into something real.

Why do you write?​

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Honestly, you already said it.
There are stories, and worlds, trapped in my head that simply must come out, and the only way I can express them, and the feelings they evoke within me, are through my stories.
I'm not a skilled painter, nor can I draw well at all. All I have are my words, and ideas, but at the very least I can leave them behind.

"The goal's not to live forever, but rather to create something that does."

 

[McPhoenixDavid]

Honestly, you already said it.
There are stories, and worlds, trapped in my head that simply must come out, and the only way I can express them, and the feelings they evoke within me, are through my stories.
I'm not a skilled painter, nor can I draw well at all. All I have are my words, and ideas, but at the very least I can leave them behind.

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[Fairemont]

Yuri!

 

[hell_yeahMylike]

Nine years ago, I just wrote a short story in a notebook for fun. When I burned it, it somehow made... I kept dwelling on that script. It was stuck in my head, waiting for its release. Back then, isekai novels weren't popular, so I wrote the script like a child. But as years passed, isekai novels became popular, and that's when I realized how weak my writing was. So I had to completely rewrite the plot and characters. I had to find inspiration for writing the characters, and every event in the story had to have a reason behind it. That's why I had to adjust the protagonist, from someone strong to just an ordinary boy, not particularly intelligent. watched many movies, including action and drama genres, watched many cartoons, and read many manga series to improve the plot of my story so it would look better and not be poorly executed.

Although the storyline script is finished now, I forgot to practice novelistic narration! I need to go and read many novels to practice descriptive writing, and I've only managed to finish two chapters so far ;^;

 

[HungrySheep]

It's fun when I have the time to do it.

 

[Envylope]

I write for the love of writing, but I have also started writing for money. I need to survive this inflation somehow.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I write because I want to experience a story I cannot experience myself.

 

[Nevafrost]

I write so that I have an aim in life. I feel so lost when I think I have nothing to do in the future. I panic a lot abymt it. But writing gives me hope that even if I have nothing to do, I still can write.

 

[HungrySheep]

I write for the love of writing, but I have also started writing for money. I need to survive this inflation somehow.

The inflation only gets worse :[

 

[Envylope]

The inflation only gets worse :[

Yeah, I am cooked or not cooked based off this novel. I will live and die by this. As you know, vampires can't work normal jobs.