Why I Write

Writing occurs in my life everyday, whether or not I think of it as "writing." There are the ideas I think of as "writing" when I hear the word, which would generally be having to do a research paper or an essay in school. This form of writing, with which I associate, makes me often stress about writing, and it is not something I do for fun.
But there is the other useful side of writing used so much more that I barely think about, which is the useful, everyday side. Everyday, I write notes to myself to remember things, I "write" text messages in order to communicate with other people, I write for a multitude of reasons that even I can't list off. But each of these influences my writing and my ideas of and about writers.
I feel like I associate with Orwell, especially from the third paragraph of his essay Why I Write. He talks about some of the "made-to-order" stuff which I produced quickly, easily and without much pleasure to myself." School work is mentioned in this section, as are many of his other "small" works he did. I like agree with his ideas on background influcing work, as I feel that the experiences I have had always show up in my writing, and looking at biographies of other writers, many fiction stories are created because they are influenced by something that happened at a point in the writer's life that gave them a strong memory. I also understand what he is saying about the four motives involved in writing, which include sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. I feel like reading or producing any piece of writing, you can find the combination of thes motives that influenced the writer to write what they did and how they wrote it.
Writing, whether for fun or for a specific purpose, is about expressing yourself and your ideas to the world. There may be many different forms through which to this, but you have to remember just one thing: It's all writing.