He writes,writes,writes and writes but why?

Maybe he is a perfectionist. They want everything to be perfect in their eyes and if they do not think its perfect then its no good to them. If a lot of people tell him its really good maybe he will finally believe it one day...

There are many people who write for enjoyment. It seems to me that he could be a really amazing writer and not believe in himself. I have a friend who a few weeks ago published a book, he is a really confindent person and when I opened his book I'm ashamed to say that it really wasn't all that impressive. It could be a good thing that he is not publishing what he writes. Eventually he could save up enough material to produce a series which really do make an author more refutable than just a single book. But to each his own...

Maybe it is the genius in him, never quite satisfied , maybe it will take something in the future like an offered contract or someone of importance to wake him up and see his work for what it is and then maybe he is striving for something he has not reached yet...

Not only have I come across people that are like this, I am one of those people myself. For as long as I can remember I have been a person that loves to write, but in most instances I don't share a lot of what I have written because I am afraid that other people will not appreciate the fruits of my labor. It has been said that a writers own biggest critic is ourselves and I honestly believe that is the truth.

Lots of people write for the enjoyment of writing. Writing is an escape from reality sometimes, and also writing is a way to come to terms with something. Oftentimes, the writing is just for the writer’s eyes only… kind of like a baby is yours to keep and enjoy and you don’t want too many people to get into your head and tarnish anything. However, sometimes people decide their work is good enough to stand on its own and are willing to publish to let the world into your head.

I think.. Why not you help him to publish his work? Try to get his agreement and send his work to any competition, newspaper column, magazines etc; Maybe somebody will like his work and perhaps his life will change afterwards. :)

Writing is a great preoccupation for many people. Those who've got a passion for writing and perfectionists themselves will end up not satisfied with their writing.

Maybe he's just the sort of person to really enjoy writing. For some people, writing is an escape, a form of therapy, or something like that. It's something that this person likes to do.

Hi Mahirai, most of us are the same as your classmates. Sometimes you feel the same too. Let us say that you score very well in the examination, but there are one or two questions that you feel you could have done better. Even when others are telling you how good you are, you still feel that you could have scored better, if only you get the two questions right. Your classmate is thinking that something is missing from his writing, but he just does not know what.

I used to be a person like your old classmate. I used to write and write and write and no matter how many times my friends would tell me that I should publish my stories and I should come out of my internet pseudonym, I still don't because I'm too scared of how the world would react to my work. Maybe that's the case with your friend. Maybe he's scared of how he would be compared to the popular authors of this generation. Maybe he's scared that if he publishes, he won't really succeed after all. All he needs is a little more motivation and who knows, maybe after some time you'll see his name on the bookshelves. :D

Yes, I look back at him in the mirror each and every morning. The thing is with writers is that we are never satisfied about anything. I make it a rule of thumb that once something passes muster to get posted on a blog or whatever(after the sanity/spelling/grammar check), I never will re-read it ever. That way, I won’t find fault on it. And the few times that I have re-read something that I posted, I hated everything. The thing is that a lot of writers, we tend to despise pretty much everything in our life, because it has the highest expectations of what we want it to be. And when we don’t meet those overly high and perhaps you can say kind of unfair expectations, it tends to get to the point where we are just ripping into everything that we write. Trust me, if the same exact thing was written by someone other than me, I would find precisely no fault with it. But since it is written by me, it is up for scathing review.

maybe what we see is just the surface of him, not the real him. after talking with him, maybe we will find that what he had done was just pretended to, not the really truth. we have to try our best to get the really truth of the stories.

i think he writes and writes and writes because he is the type of person who finds it hard to release or express his feelings verbally.. so in the form of writing, he does it well. and i think this classmate of yours is somehow inclined with the gift of art in terms of poetry, which is very rare at the moment.. he has a very good imaginations on things and that he views it well in a different perspectives which can only be expressed through paper and a pen.. i really admire people who can write.. and if i happened to meet him, i'll salute him :0