“Why do you write?” I’ve heard this question more than I would like to admit. “How are you going to earn a living from writing?” This has also been directed at me regularly. “I don’t read.” That’s the most depressing one. Luckily, I know that the odds of me making money from my writing is slim to none. I don’t count on it as system to provide me with funds to survive in a capitalistic society. I look at it as a fundamental need. An addiction that can only be solved by writing more and growing my skill to better help me achieve the reason I write.
For I write for a very selfish reason. I don’t care about publishing (I try to publish so I can get paid to write more). When I sit down or decide to write a manuscript, my goal is to take a complex problem and solve it. Like a mathematician looking for the answer to a formula, I too am seeking answers. Instead of using math, I use language and sentence structure. I place a large question at the center of my manuscript, I pull off related concepts, and then I research. Once I have a base of knowledge and what I want to know, I create humans and set them in my world to see what would happen. Often, things I never expect transpire and I learn. I grow through the creation of my characters and their interactions. How they handle the world that I have placed them in, helps me understand the world we live within. I write to understand and answer what I deem are important questions.
So I write for myself. I do it to make sense of the world and understand all the aspects that interact in on our planet. If you ever read my work, hopefully it will help answer questions you have, but more likely and what I want, it will cause you to get new questions. Each book has spawned another book, and that’s why I need to publish, I have too many questions and I keep getting more.