Why Write?

i'm happy these few days, which doesnt exactly give me a reason to really blog. after going through my blogs one after another, i realized that my life is really depressing. i only write when i'm down and depressed, which is possibly the reason why i write. the following is what i wrote for one of my assignments (i got a Distinction for it, go me!) for my Writing class, which i would like to share with everyone. that's basically because i ran out of stuff to write about...i'm happy, forgive me, enjoy.

Why write? I write basically to bitch and moan about every single thing that is wrong with my life or dare I say the universe. But that was before I started writing on a regular basis. Now I write to get my emotions out. Since I realized that I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve, I have to find a way to get it all out. In that sense I relate to Austin (1982) and Bird (1993), in what they wrote. Austin writes about his past, the nostalgia and the reason why he became a writer today; Bird writes about how she puts the facts in her past into the fictional writing that she has created. I on the other hand write to re-live my past, to remind me of the growing pains that I had endured and the happy moments I have lived through. I write based on my emotions and try to bring it to a higher level. For example, my memories have made me write things that is hard to face in real life, but by channeling my experience I can write about a minimalist room which has nothing in it apart from a chair and a dangling light bulb, all because I felt empty in life at that exact moment after writing my memoirs on paper. The room, like how i envision my life to be, is empty apart from a few minor details. From that I was able to expand and bring a character in that I felt resembled me on a different level. Like Austin, I was able to create nostalgia, like Bird I was able to channel this nostalgia or facts into something else; fictional writing.

So why write? Maybe other people write just for the hell of it, maybe they just write because they feel like it or they have too many ideas and thoughts in their head they just need a way to channel it out. But personally, I write with my emotions and feelings up front. Finding a way to merge fact into fiction by emphasis of certain details and make the readers relate to me, that's why I write.

one of these days i have to post my writing pieces for u guys to see. some of my readers will like it, some of them wont. but i honestly hope u, as a reader would have an impact upon reading it. after all, that's what i'm here for.