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I write because sometimes I have too many thoughts going on in my head and writing helps me focus some of that randomness into a coherent form.

I write because sometimes I need to say something that I cannot say normally.

I write because I want to see how far I can push myself with ideas.

I write because sometimes I just need to to work through something on my own and writing seems to be the safest outlet.

I don’t think I write particularly well; reading over some of my pieces, I can hear the clipped tone of some sentences countered by long rambling one sentence paragraphs. I won’t defend my ‘style’. It’s just how it comes out in my head and my fingers follow suit.

In the past few months, I’ve written a lot more than usual. Most of it will never be shared with the world as it is too personal or too emotional compared to my ‘normal’ style of writing. But it’s gotten me thinking again. Wondering if I shouldn’t pick up where I left off so many years ago with the stories I started with someone I once considered a friend.

Whilst packing up for my most recent move, I found a box file of old clippings I’d collected over the years, starting in primary school, with pictures from the old ZX Spectrum User magazines, through high school, when I gained access to decent libraries and Photostat machines and later college (okay, Technikon!)… Ideas. Fragments. Little bits of inspiration.

I think I still have some of my old writing in there somewhere too.

‘Thief of Dreams’ is still rattling around in my head somewhere. It’s a personal tale on some levels but if I can avoid some of the clichés of the genre, I think it can work.

I also have the ‘Naiad’s Children’ on the backburner… though I think that it needs some rethinking.

Lastly I promised a friend a story, something I started on paper and will probably continue in the same manner, should inspiration be kind enough to stick around long enough for me to tell the tale.

I write… because I want to. And whenever I find an appreciative audience, it encourages me to try harder.

Why do you write?