Why do you write?

Someone has probably asked this question before. (If you hang around here long enough, that statement becomes a truism. If you've hung out here for quite some time, you'll probably find you asked the same question yourself three years ago. Oops.)

Don't care about that, though. Here goes:

When did you start writing? What age were you when you started writing poems or stories or something spontaneous, outside of the writing you had to do for school? Follow-on question: At what age did you start writing poems? (In my case they are different ages--why I ask.)

Other follow-on questions: Why? (If you remember why.) Have you written continuously since then? (I haven't, which again is why I ask.) Why do you continue to do it?

Other questions as they occur to you, or others, to ask


It's just a thread, people. Flirt if you must. ;)

Being a rhyming poet I've always had an affection for rhyme. I wrote my first serious poem to my then girl friend whom I married out of high school. I stopped writing until we separated, then went back to writing as a way of dealing with the hurt. Over the years I have written many poems, and still continue to write to this day, only not as much as in days past
 
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