Why I write?
I'm not writing to stay in the group (Literati) nor to impress my readers. I'm writing to stay being myself. I write to express my feelings and to explore my thoughts and put them into words. I usualy write when I'm bored or I do not have any thing else to do. Writing lets me get out of my anger and stress and put it on a piece of paper. I write because I need to. When i feel like I have something good to write on. I do it to express my feelings to someone, to show them my feelings and see what they think of it. I write to explain myself better. I got a lot to say but I don't know how to say it. I feel better expressing myself through writing. It doesn’t matter to me what people think of my poems. They can always be harsh, evil or even sweet. But in the end it’s always me. I write for myself not for them.
I am not a big fan of writing, however sometimes it is necessary. As a writer, you are always in contact with what gives you life. You are using your life for writing -- your whole being is there. I can't even say to myself that I am a writer. I could write. It was just me and my laziness sometimes going against it. The person who does not believe in me is me. So I ought to work on that. So it was not really the writing but the biggest block was believing that I can do it.
In the beginning I found myself drawn toward writing about my life. And just tried to write a poem one day because an idea came to my mind. I found I was not good at it then I practiced more and developed my new poems. It's something I'm quite passionate about and I want to be able to write and I'd just try things out. So I often shifts writing styles from the informal to the formal, vice versa, exploring and adding new vocabulary along the way. I believe that it would help me to shape better my literary skill.
For me the best poems come from what you're feeling and things that you've been through. It is what I do for my poems.
