Why I Write

I am Voldemort and my writings are my Horcruxes. Every little story, every character, every single point in the plot has a bit of my soul in it. And they are why I am still alive.

I hide myself in the characters. Every single one has a piece of me. Whether it is their fears or their hair color, they are a piece of me or someone else I know. Every single character is based upon one main feature. And that is how I will remain alive, by dropping pieces of my life into a character.

The stories include things that have happened to me, things that could happen to me, things I want to happen to me. I bury myself in each tale and live in that world because I couldn't imagine carrying it out in the real world. I'm too afraid to expose myself that way.

The poems I write contain thoughts I've grown in the farm of my head, because the obscure and the absurd are accepted only in poetry. If I ever mentioned that to a human being otherwise, I would be thrown in a mental rehabilitation. I can write every thought in here, disguise it in imagery and metaphors and throw it out to the world, and it will be accepted.

The dialogues and scenes I write are based on things I want to say, or thing I have heard people say, or things I wish someone would say to me. They are based on snippets of conversation I hear in the day. Dialogues I have in dreams. They're elaborated upon and become something else, but that was how it began. And it builds from these.

My thoughts, my attributes, my wishes, my dreams, and my entire heart and soul build into different stories. They are hiding here, and when hidden, they are accepted. When out there for real, they are not. It is through burying and hiding that I feel safe expressing myself. Through disguising and shrouding it in other words, I can be myself.

And that is why I write.