Why do we write?

Writing as a profession has become less appealing to the younger generation because there just isn’t enough money.

George Orwell, the seer of our postmodern era, once wrote , “All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.” The motive Orwell alluded to is certainly not money. While personal experience confirms it, there are also enough surveys that reinforce what we writers already knew: Writing barely makes any money.