laciemn

Don't be a perfectionist! No one is going to critcise your personal reasons for writing. Well, they might, but you'll live!

This can take a while, it prolly took me like...more than half an hour to do.

I got the idea from Steve's article about writing.

200 Things I Love About Writing

If you give up before reaching 200, just post what you've got!

Let's make an inspiring thread! C'mon.

1. expression
2. wish fulfillment
3. alternate realities
4. creativity
5. mental stimulation
6. self revelation
7. emotional understanding
8. improving my craft
9. make money
10. get recognition
11. make something original
12. discover new potentials
13. explore alternative realities
14. improve communicative abilities
15. improve grammar
16. improve sentence structure
17. have something to do
18. have a “baby”
19. feel productive
20. make a future
21. reach people
22. make an impact
23. provoke emotional responses
24. reflect upon myself
25. understand the past
26. understand people better
27. learn to try harder
28. learn to concentrate better
29. stay true to myself
30. discover my own true nature
31. have something to fall back on
32. extreme situations
33. excitement
34. brings surrealist worlds to life
35. connect with people
36. sharing emotions
37. reflecting
38. getting a reputation as one of the best
39. becoming the
40. being recognized and rewarded
41. make a living
42. have something to do in coffee shops
43. feel productive as I work
44. reaching people emotionally
45. making other people reflect upon themselves
46. make other people understand their current situations better
47. have people want to make a change
48. inspire people
49. restore faith
50. heal a broken soul
51. expose old wounds
52. entertain people
53. entertain myself
54. create an embodiment of myself
55. recreate my soul in written form
56. explore others perspectives
57. dedicate characters to people
58. interact with characters
59. unable to decide on a course of action
60. make myself feel calm
61. think about people as I write them
62. explore possibilities
63. bring new elements to my life
64. create with solely my own mind
65. shake people to their cores
66. challenge my views
67. challenge other’s views
68. changing lives
69. changing mood
70. eliminate stereotypes
71. make exciting people
72. make exciting situations
73. change reality
74. create a different reality
75. inspire others to write

laciemn

76. inspire others to improve
77. determine my future
78. question my beliefs
79. implement my beliefs
80. explore options
81. create humorous situations
82. the thought of becoming published
83. hope of a better life
84. being a writer
85. connection with other writers
86. “other-ness”
87. Feeling special
88. Feeling reflective
89. feeling smart
90. being proud of myself
91. having others believe in me
92. have others like my writing
93. make my granny proud
94. live in a fantasy world
95. experiment with different kinds of realities
96. experiment in each genre
97. become enlightened
98. discover something new
99. writing different types of things
100. breaking into the unknown without ant risk
101. writing about things I wish I could do
102. sharing knowledge
103. being/sounding clever
104. make people laugh out loud
105. make people cry
106. shed new light on people’s insensitivities
107. make people understand each other better
108. have people understand the world from a different perspective
109. encourage people
110. discover a hidden part of myself
111. dream recollection
112. dream explorations
113. to create new creatures
114. create new technologies
115. time travel
116. switching perspectives
117. interwebbing of complex situations
118. mapping of character conflict
119. drama
120. ideas coming from writing
121. giving my ideas a physical structure
122. making sense of the chaos in my mind
123. stability
124. insanity
125. indulgence
126. exploring concepts
127. making lists
128. making charts
129. planning chapters
130. developing characters
131. giving the reader exactly what s/he wants
132. keeping myself engaged and excited
133. keeping the reader engaged
134. staying on the edge of my seat
135. stimulate the mind
136. remember events
137. use for past experience
138. use for dreams
139. implementation of idealism
140. a perfect world
141. change
142. love of my characters
143. exploring darker elements
144. delving into the mind
145. using my mental dysfunctions to my advantage for once
146. having unlimited power
147. orchestrate events
148. play God
149. love my work
150. become excited at the possibility of someone else seeing it
151. sharing discoveries
152. sharing fantasies
153. being controversial
154. scare people
155. impress people
156. convince people
157. convince myself
158. argue a case
159. feeling like I could go on for hours
160. feeling accomplished
161. increased word count
162. quality work
163. original
164. dialogue
165. remembering events and using them for material
166. trying to explain an inside joke without being tedious
167. abstract situations
168. looking within
169. words=art
170. checking the flow
171. editing
172. improving
173. revising
174. revising again
175. receiving criticism and improving
176. receiving criticism but being unaffected, because I believe in my own values
177. reading as a writer
178. dreaming about writing
179. imagery
180. details
181. connectivity of images to emotions
182. connectivity of the mind
183. feeling like an idea-bot
184. feel my head buzzing
185. feel my heart pound
186. the grin after I’m done
187. the thought of doing it for money
188. the idea of doing nothing but crawling into a hole and writing
189. new respect and admiration for authors
190. creating something out of nothing except my mind and a pencil
191. having unlimited potential
192. having complete control
193. being the quality insurer
194. perfecting
195. adding details
196. adding tidbits
197. insinuation, but not stating
198. following a path
199. completing a project
200. fulfillment

Mike C

It's a reasonable alternative to masturbation and less messy.

Who needs dumb lists? Just write something interesting.

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laciemn

Because, the "dumb list" are reasons you write! It's not stupid, if you aren't aware of why you do things, why would you even bother!?

A "dumb list" can provide insight into your own motivations and, if you are like me and a lot of other people, gives at least some clarity.

Some people actually can gain from doing things like this, just because you can't doesn't mean it's dumb. Not to mention, I'm sure you didn't write out a list of 200 reasons yourself before you judged whether it was a dumb idea or not.

cowpops

I write because I can't not write.

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Mike C

I'm fully aware of why I do things. I just don't feel the need to itemise every little nuance in a dumb list, not read anyone else's.[/quote]

A "dumb list" can provide insight into your own motivations and, if you are like me and a lot of other people, gives at least some clarity.

Damn right. If I had to write the list before I could judge whether it was a good idea or not, I really would be dumb. Life's to short to itemise. Besides, there's enough repetition in the list to be able to boil it down lots.

Try:

Create.
Inspire.
Earn.

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yesterdaysnews

I write in a Journal whenever I get really emotional or depressed. It rains here quite a bit so I don't really get to jog like I usually do when i'm depressed. And I don't use a computer either. My hand hurts like hell after. Just something to look forward to, like a distraction, mostly. Usually I will think about something else right after. Kind of pathetic but oh well.

amortentia23

Hmm...I write because it never occurred to me not to. In some cases,I get satisfaction out of turning negative experiences into something positive, or see it as a way of creating on paper what(or who)ever I can't have e in real life.

RomanticRose

Because I'm a writer. I'd be a piss-poor one if I didn't write.

There was never anything else I really wanted to be. Most of my earliest memories are tied up with someone telling me to "stop that infernal scribbling and {insert chore here}."

A large part of what I write today is to support my nasty addictions to food, shelter, clothing, running water and electricity. Still, though, at least 4 hours a day are dedicated to the general fiction novel, that I hope to sell under my own name -- instead of one of the pen names. Even if I had continued school and got my PhD and became a practicing psychologist, I would still be scribbling every chance I could find.

So when you ask why I write, the only answer I can really give is, "Why do you assume I have a choice?"

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Destroyer

I have a hyperactive imagination and I need it to go somewhere or my head will explode.

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Dan

I write for the same reason that I let my dog out when he's scratching at the door.

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Mike C

You write so your dog won't shit on the carpet?

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rosiecotton

Because I have to; it's the lesser known instinct between breathing and eating.

Dan

No, because sometimes a dog just has to get outside!

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ArlenOrobono

I like him xD.

I write because I enjoy it. For as long as I can remember I've enjoyed reading stories, and when I realized I could also write them, I didn't stop.