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I've been writing tech-related bits for the last 10 or so years, since my very first web page. If any of you have visited my site and seen the Techlog section, you'll see that I just have the desire to write, to inform, and to pontificate.
My first stories were essentially short stories. They were written for a series of characters that I originally intended for a graphic novel treatment, and I knew I needed to develop the stories before I could start the illustration work (I'd fallen into the hole of creating a graphic project, then having no story to tell, more than once).
Those short stories turned out to be The Onuissance Cells. (For the record, the graphic treatment never happened!)
As I said, I started writing about a decade ago. This last year was the first that I'd ever exposed these stories to anyone! The tech-based articles were on my site, of course, but I received very little feedback from them. Still, I so enjoyed putting them down, that I kept writing them regardless. It was fun! And I felt I had something to say, something I had no other outlet for.
Writing is different things to different people. For some, it's just fun. For others, it may be an outlet... maybe their only one, maybe one of a group (acting, art, dancing). For others, it's a way to record something that needs to be recorded. And for some, it's just something they do well that can make them a living. For me, it was fun and outlet, and maybe someday, living.
I guess the more of these that are true about you, the easier it is for you to write. But in fact, any one of these are good enough reasons to write.
(Well, I'll try to leave this forum open to the aspiring writers now...)
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