“Why We Write” is a blog where striking writers explain the reasons they write. Sometimes the answers are straightforward and sometimes they are they humorous or crazy antidotes. For example, “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof starts off his post with this: 

I was listening to the news on NPR the other day and two things occurred to me.  First, only assholes feel the constant need to tell you they listen to NPR (does anyone ever say, “So I was watching the CW last night…”?) and I guess that makes me an asshole.  The second was that in the midst of listening to the story in question, I had finally figured out how to succinctly sum up why I write.  It goes a little something like this – 

What I find amusing is that I LOVE the CW and watch just about every show on it.