Perhaps you are writing because you have an assignment due, and you need to complete it by a certain time. That is the straightforward writing requirement. It's also not usually the reason that people start blogging.
Perhaps you are writing because you need to write in order to think, and the process of writing slows down your thinking to the point where it starts to make sense. If you type faster, then you think just a little bit faster, but you can't type as fast as the words just tumble out of your brain, so you get a chance to edit a bit before they land on the screen.
Perhaps you are writing to attract attention to your ideas, or to the ideas of someone else you are working with. It may be less about having something of your own to say, and more about locating someone else who would be interested in the topic at hand.
I'm writing this down so that I can remember it. The Internet is curious in that it's a good way, sometimes, to publish things in relatively obscure places where the very small amount of attention you get for your words right away is balanced by your own ability in the long run to remember what you were thinking months or years later.
If the Google is correct, I have not yet asked the question "why do you write?" By publishing this, I fix that, so that the next time I want to know why I thought I was doing this I can look it up.
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