Now here is the question we writers must often ask:
Does anyone really understand what causes a writer to need to write?
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I don’t know why writers need to write.
For me it’s about communication.
Ideas, information and imagination are three of the components that come together whether in fiction or non-fiction.
The later relies heavily on the ideas and information, but without imagination, a story comes across as flat - merely a laundry list of data.
Without ideas and imagination, there can be no fiction and without information, it seems hollow.
Writing provides an opportunity to create a semi-permanent record, at least as long as files or paper exists.
Let's not forget what Samuel Johnson said:
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."
Of course he spoke before the Internet gave every Tom, Dick and Harry the chance to mouth off about whatever topic they choose for no compensation. Perhaps that doesn't count as writing.
Years ago I read an article about Jean Paul Sartre. An accolyte once asked the great man how he too could start writing, to which Sartre replied, "How can you not?"
For writers and other artists, the creative urge may be so strong that they have to express it regardless of compensation.
So perhaps we writers have no choice--although a paycheck never hurts.
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