Well seeing as this is my first blog, I think I should first introduce myself. My 'net name is Kataar, and although invented, I created the name for a fan fiction I'd wanted to start at one time...a Star Wars fan fiction. A rather terrible one that was boring and poorly written, but hey, I was a teenager at the time. Anyway, the name stuck.

I've always loved Star Wars, and Star Trek for that matter (which somehow seems to be a cardinal sin around these parts...) The stories of Star Wars have always enchanted me, I'd sit on the couch mesmerized by Yoda's teachings on Yavin, even more so when he waved his little hand and lifted that mighty starfighter out of the swamp. Without doubt, it has always been the Force and the Jedi (along with those troublesome Sith) that caught my attention and captured my imagination for two decades. Furthermore, in both the OT and the EU, the galaxy around the Jedi was so well written, so imaginative, so intense and so...well, so!

That said, I wanted to talk a little about fictional stories. What in particular I'm not sure, but I'm sure it'll sort itself out in this entry Sine I was in grade school, I've loved writing. I think it was around the 5th grade that I started, and it was in junior high that I started to become serious about writing.

But even those of us who don't write fiction, those of us who make movies, sing songs, or recount an event within our lives, or for that matter tell a joke, we all have this strong desire to tell a tale. Well, maybe not all, I'm generalising, but the question that continually burns within me is: why? Story telling has existed through out all of history, and I'm willing to bet in some limited form it existed during prehistorical times. From the first tale of how Ogg made fire, to the cave drawings of a great hunt, to the first epic poems written and the first dramas performed, to the novel and short story, and further into the creation of motion pictures and television series, the story has been an integral and constant part of our culture.

What prompted George Lucas to create Star Wars? Was it to see if he could do it? Was it because he wanted to share his ideas with the world? Or was it simply an insatiable desire to simply take his imagination and make it real (or as real as possible.)

The truth is, it's different for each person. My reasons are probably fairly different from each and every reason the writers in my creative writing class write. It's probably different from most of your reasons. I'll bet you'd be hard pressed to find someone who tells tales for the exact same reason. Similar maybe, but I doubt reasons would ever be exactly the same. Then again, maybe I'm wrong.

So I put it to you, fellow bloggers and blog readers! (Please excuse the corniness of that sentence.) Why do you think people tell tales? Why do you tell tales? In essence, my question is: what do you think?

Why do I write? I'll leave that for another blog, I imagine you're probably tired of reading what I have to say by this point