Um es kurz zu machen - To make it short:

Writing is ...

... fantasy

... being creative

... hard work

... fun

... tears

... laughter

... more than a hobby

... a experience

... freedom

... having a goal

... having no goal

... painful

... dreaming

... being realistic

... dealing

... being overwhelmed

... finding yourself

... losing yourself

... drowning in words

... forgetting

... remembering

... searching

... about emotions

... making the impossible possible

... having a pencil in your pocket everywhere you go

... lying awake

... falling asleep in front of the computer

... getting cold fingers

... twisting your brain

... like flying

... getting no sleep

... staring at the Computer/in the air/on the seiling

... thinking

... smiling with no reason

... about letting go

... learning

... organisation

... important

... challenging

... thinking

... having more thoughts in your head than you can handle

... having not a single thought

... just doing

... having keen senses

... everything.