What got you started? What keeps you writing?
This was the question for day one of this challenge. It's not really an easy question.... well, the answer isn't easy, anyway.
I started writing for two reasons. The first is that I needed a creative outlet. I have always been very imaginative, but my imagination, if not kept in check, tends to run away with me, and becomes nightmares. Over time, I recognised a pattern. The more I taxed my mind, the less likely I was to have bad dreams. I think this is why, in fandom, I'm something of a 'multishipper' (which is where you're agnostic as to the characters you're willing to write in relation to each other). If it's hard to imagine, it's better for my brain - I suppose it's my version of doing sudoku before bed or something.
The second reason was to have something that was just mine, I think. Although I do share my writing, and I like the rewards I get from it, I didn't start off in the hopes that I'd become well known or rich or anything like that (bit of a fools errand anyway). I write mostly for me - most of the writers I know are like that too, in a variety of different ways.
Keeping up with writing is pretty cyclical for me. I'm very critical of myself, and do tend to get bored with things quite quickly... but I haven't gotten bored of writing yet. It's never-endingly interesting to me, and that's a pretty rare thing. It's enough to keep me going.
This was the question for day one of this challenge. It's not really an easy question.... well, the answer isn't easy, anyway.
I started writing for two reasons. The first is that I needed a creative outlet. I have always been very imaginative, but my imagination, if not kept in check, tends to run away with me, and becomes nightmares. Over time, I recognised a pattern. The more I taxed my mind, the less likely I was to have bad dreams. I think this is why, in fandom, I'm something of a 'multishipper' (which is where you're agnostic as to the characters you're willing to write in relation to each other). If it's hard to imagine, it's better for my brain - I suppose it's my version of doing sudoku before bed or something.
The second reason was to have something that was just mine, I think. Although I do share my writing, and I like the rewards I get from it, I didn't start off in the hopes that I'd become well known or rich or anything like that (bit of a fools errand anyway). I write mostly for me - most of the writers I know are like that too, in a variety of different ways.
Keeping up with writing is pretty cyclical for me. I'm very critical of myself, and do tend to get bored with things quite quickly... but I haven't gotten bored of writing yet. It's never-endingly interesting to me, and that's a pretty rare thing. It's enough to keep me going.