The Merry Month Of May

Today marks the first day of (relative) freedom, as internship is finally over, and for three months until the boards in August, except for the board review that I have to go to school for on weekdays, I'm on a (sort of) vacation. Which means more sleeping, more reading, more writing. (Hopefully.)

So to start off the month, a question from the May Writing Meme, hosted by jjhunter.

1. Why do you write?

As with my answer to yifu's writer friending meme, because I can't seem not to. I would be sitting in class or in a conference, and I suddenly think of a detail for a story, or someone would say something in passing and I would suddenly think, "Hey, that would make a good story," (for example, one of my mystery stories actually came about just because a classmate of mine was wondering if one could die if he were hit with a durian fruit). It's sometimes really inconvenient (because I tend to drift off during lectures, for one, and I end up writing when everyone else is studying), and I don't always have the time to write, so I'd be slightly obsessed with the story idea until I can actually sit down and write. And even when writing gives me a lot of grief sometimes, since I can never be as good or as popular as I wish I could be, I just couldn't give it up.

And well, there's nothing more fulfilling for me than having someone enjoy reading a story I wrote. :)

That's all for now. To close the post, some interesting original fiction/fanfic comment fic prompts I found:

Original Fic Commentfest
Famous Firsts