To be a writer
To write professionally
To make a buck

To prove that I am a writer

For recognition
For validity
For an audience
For a legacy

To teach
To castigate

To have something to take home and say, “I’m better than the person who left here.”

For competition
For dreams

For disillusionment

For posterity

Because thousands of shitty novels are published every day, and I need to prove to someone that I can write a shitty novel.