Why do you write?

What writing means to you? Why do you write?

I want to know your story, your thoughts about writing. Do you write? Do you want to write? Do you keep a diary, do you write down your inner thoughts and secrets? Do you write a book? Many books? Why?

I follow so many talented and passionate people around the world, I read posts, opinions and advices about books and stories and plots. We write all day, we write tweets, posts, we write on Facebook walls, and I want to know ... why do you write? What urges you to do it?

I'm not going to tell you how I started writing again, we've said that long ago. This time I'm gonna tell you why.

Because writing keeps me sane.

A pen and a blank sheet of paper was always my friend. When I write, it's like pulling my emotions to the surface, forcing myself to face them, explore them, analyze them. Writing a story, or writing a post, or simply a few words it's cathartic.

I empty my head by writing down words and stories. It's my way to relax, feel beautiful and mostly at peace. I smile when I write and it's not that I write funny things, but it's that a feeling of utter happiness that settles in me and I can't quite shake it away. Not that I want to.

When I read something that thrills me either it's an article or a book, the urge to write increases. My heat hammers, my fingers itch. I want to write. Let me do it all day long, alone in an empty space, it doesn't matter. Time works strange when I write, the world is quiet and I get to feel every letter I type, every word that dance in my mind before settles in its place on the Word Doc.

Be true to yourself, they say, and I am myself when I write. If it's a calling, I don't know, neither I know if it's ever going to be heard as a voice shouting out loud to an empty hall. But I'm shouting in my head and I' writing down the words so anyone who happens to stumble upon this post can read them.

I write because when I don't I feel like drowning in a world of voices.

Take a moment away from yourself, just shut everything down and look into you, into your soul. 

What urges you to write?