Why do you write this stuff?

The Eternal Question. Answered brilliantly here by Marissa Lingen (who got asked the damn question in the first place), here by matociquala and here by katallen.

And here by me.

( wherein I talk too much )

I want to be Ursula K. Le Guin when I grow up.

Especially the take-no-prisoners attitude.

Q. & A. transcript here.