Weekly Writing – Why do you write?

Today we're going deep, writers.

My exercise of the week is inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet:

"Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart; acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write. This above all—ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write?"

Write (at least) two pages about why you write.