Why do I write? As you can tell from my late reply I needed a few days to mull over your question. Writing is part of my job, but it doesn’t only help to buy food and other necessities it is a part I actually like. Writing essays, testing hypotheses, constructing a logical argument is fun for me, tremendously so. Plus, I think best when I’m writing.
But that isn’t what your question was about, right? It was about writing fiction. I’m not sure I can answer that. I’ve always loved to invent stories, either completely original ones or simply spinning off from things I enjoyed, but until roughly two years ago I never felt any need to write them down. I somehow stumbled into HP fan fiction, read a lot, loved some stories to bits, hated others and gradually my own stories began to form in my head. So I wrote them down – for the first time ever. And more stories wanted to be told. The weirdest things can trigger ideas, and I love to see them taking shape on paper or screen, words developing a life of their own. It’s still one of the most amazing things that has ever happened to me, and now that I’ve started, I don’t think I could stop, nor would I want to.
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Date: 2009-04-07 12:14 pm (UTC)But that isn’t what your question was about, right? It was about writing fiction. I’m not sure I can answer that. I’ve always loved to invent stories, either completely original ones or simply spinning off from things I enjoyed, but until roughly two years ago I never felt any need to write them down. I somehow stumbled into HP fan fiction, read a lot, loved some stories to bits, hated others and gradually my own stories began to form in my head. So I wrote them down – for the first time ever. And more stories wanted to be told. The weirdest things can trigger ideas, and I love to see them taking shape on paper or screen, words developing a life of their own. It’s still one of the most amazing things that has ever happened to me, and now that I’ve started, I don’t think I could stop, nor would I want to.