To all the writers out there, I am one too. I'm wondering, what inspires you to write? What makes you want to write? Why do you write? What is magical about putting the pen on paper?

To me, writing is a piece of the puzzle, how I think and how I understand things is through writing. With writing I understsand people's viewpoints and understand ways of life totsally different from my own. With writing I am able to escape myself and become something unique. With writing it is not only the beauty of the type but also the passions of the writter that flow through the words.

So, why do you write?

Well, it's hard for me to express this.


I started writing from a young age. I read a lot of books and wished I could also write a book.
When I was in boarding school and we had to go to bed always too early, so I killed the time with inventing imaginary people. Well, not friends, because I didn't talk to them or whatever... I just thought about what they would do together.

This has been a habit for me whenever I need to kill time. But I also found a disadvantage. I was always thinking about the same plot, I couldn't go on with it. So when I got my first computer, the first thing I did was writing stories about these people I imagined in my mind. And it worked. When I typed the plot I thought about then it was like "it's over, so you got to think about a new plot for them."

So this has been all the way until today. It's quite fascinating to get new ideas and to see how my writing skills are evolving through the time.
My characters/stories I invented when I was 10 years old were all quite simple and often inspired by some TV heroes. But now I'm giving them all a background which just came out of my mind. So I'm like a mother and these stories/characters are my kids - though no one is already grown up. Some of them are still growing and some of them have stopped growing up. But if I got a new idea "how to raise" them, then everything will be different again. Nothing stays the same.

It's my favorite way to escape because I created this "reality" with my own hands. Not like playing video games or watching anime because I didn't create them.

i started writing when i was in the fifth grade and continued to write until about five years ago. i'd write stories, fables and myths when i was younger. when i was older i'd write some poetry and some never to be published novels.

i haven't wrote anything in a long time and now i doubt i possess the skill to create something that would be interesting. i think that writing was one way i dealt with my shit life back then. a faint twinkling star in a polluted black sky which would comfort me, if only for a few moments.