Why a writer writes… one writer’s ramblings

I see this question often. Not to abscond anyone or ridicule another. but often a writer asks others this, perhaps just to get to know another Author or gain perspective:

The question is: Do you write for yourselves/pleasure or for the reader/to be heard? And there is no right or wrong answer even if the sides don’t agree {they are opposites of course}, and some writers feel they are a little of both.

However, there is actually a third to this, because some people do write for the book sales, some write because they just love writing, but some write because they are a natural ‘Storyteller’, it is what they do and often the need to do so as involuntary is breathing. You will hear them telling a story over lunch with friends, or telling one at the camp fire, or tell them to a friend or loved one when they’re sick in bed. And this Storyteller is as irrelevant and relevant to the other two purposes of why we write.

So keep on writing… and don’t worry about the why’s… cause you never know…. you just might be a Natural.