Why do you want to write screenplays?

[sharry]

hi, everybody...

well... i might have the weirdest answer to this particular question. i like to write is because it takes me to a new world... i wish i was a csi investigator but i can't cause i don't have the things to be one, i wish i was a covert operator i but i can't cause i don't have the body and the things to be one, i wish i was with the person that i have a crush on i cant because i cant talk to her.... what can i do is write about them and feel the characters myself... imagine through my writings the mindful tactics of a covert operator, the oversmart statements of a csi investigator and talk to my crush.... writing and not to forget reading (which is an integral part of writing) takes me to a whole new world.... that is what makes me write.... and also because i love making films.... money and fame.... they are perks that everybody wants....even me!

[padnar]

Hi All ,
why do we write? good question ,we love writing  because
we are passionate about it at the same time we want recognition and
money so we write screen plays.  love and money a deadly combination
padma

[uncle_al]

I find on days that I don't write at least something, I'm irritable.  It's like a junkie needing their fix!  

Robert Heinlein said much the same thing in his later years... He got irritable if he didn't get his daily minimum in, and as he grew older, it took larger and larger wordage amounts to give him that "warm feeling of satiety" that he looked forward to.

It's just my "calling" ...and even though it's not the "choice" I would have picked, I now, wouldn't trade it for anything!

I think I've said it elsewhere on this site... you don't write because you choose to, you write because you have to.  It chooses you.
I write because I don't know how not to.  I tell stories... whether they're told with words on paper, pixels on phosphors, or images on a screen, they are stories I tell.  Stories about what I feel deeply about... Honor.  Commitment.  Perseverance.  That there is a right and a wrong, and it is necessary to tell the difference.

Fight the good fight.  Semper Fi!

Al B.

[roadrunner2]

I often ask myself the same question.  I KNOW it's not for the money and in all honesty, I really don't think about that.  I have always been one to see something and turn a story out of it, especially if it's something that speaks to me.  I like writing stories that resonate, as well as entertain.

I find on days that I don't write at least something, I'm irritable.  It's like a junkie needing their fix!   Does anyone who REALLY finds writing their passion know what drives them?  It's just something that is understood by other writers who feel the same drive and passion.

It's just my "calling" ...and even though it's not the "choice" I would have picked, I now, wouldn't trade it for anything!

[FLM]

Really, I want to know.
For the love it or for the love of the pay off?
Do really have a burning desire to get to that story out, does the world need to hear and see your story? Why so?
What motivates you?
Me...I have writing since I was a kid in grade school. I have always been a story teller or so my Grandpa told me 
I wrote for money before college but magazines so no fiction which was kind of dead to me. Just stating the obvious.
I did film school so I could bring life to my tales. That was nearly 15 years ago. Now I have gotten to the point where I
can make it happen my way, almost.
So tell me.