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First of all a very Happy engineers day to everyone.
Many times when I go to book shops I find novels or stories written by someone, who was an engineer by profession. Engineers study very hard to clear the engineering entrance test and then publish a book or a romantic novel....
Why engineers have this love for writing.... any answers?
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Two reasons according to me.
1) Writing is something which traverses boundaries. People in any profession can be bitten by the bug.
2) If you graduate from a good college (IIT/IIM), people percieve you to be intelligent and above average on the face value. Majority of such romantic novels have been written by IITians and IIM guys!
Cheers :)
completely second you on your second point 
Cheers!
Happy Engineers Day!
I've an uncle, who has been a gr8 scientist at ISRO, and as far as i've seen him, he spends time either reading his astro-stuff or novels or he writes!
I've no explanation to why engineers love writing, but, its true that engineers really love to!
Really! I dont understand why so many IITians/IIM passouts are writing crappy (read bad English, age old plot) novels about their exploits while studying engineering. And stores like Crossword proudly showcase them on the best sellers' shelf.
@sweta..... because they hardly get a chance to write anything in exams.... so they leave their frustration on novels
.... and love is the most strong hidden desire of engineers , thats y y they believe in love stories...
@himanshu.... not like that majority of engineers who wrote novels are from IIT or IIM.... if it was the case than let me write a novel to prove this wrong
that is a good point....
BTW your novel.... I can guess what it will be about...
lolz.... not like that yaar..... u can take me seriously some times
3 possible roads to ruin ur life :
Happeee Engineers' Day
+1 @mohan
Same to you Mohan....
not sure about the first two points but technology will surly sure the developers life
Fully agree @Mag[M] , though engineers have many subject to study, they feel why not write a novel as we are reading almost 40+ books from different authors in single course. Relief from frustration !
Reamaining engineers write to inpress girls !!
+1 on the last line 
u engineers have too much of free time !
Engineers write technical books to always be remembered at least by college students either in good way or bad way
Engineers write a romantic novel because engineers are very romantic
as i said earlier , u enggs have too much free time !
Simple answer?
Coz wannabe engineers read. :)
as i keep on repeating , enggs have too much free time !
LOL , ok guys , b4 i get booted out for allegations of spamming , lemme stop pulling !
May be because, we engineers have the art of filling papers in exam with our own stories, when we don't know the answer
I dunno! Maybe we are took terrified of our own domain! We venture into the grasslands and find hills and valleys and jungle...... :P
this is just crap we like to invest (read waste) our time in anything that is not our domain!
Let me take the pain of explaining this to u all..Engineers (Only Indian) are a special breed (definitely not extinct nor on the verge of extinction).. They are the lot who had some talent or the other, but by some force of nature ( Bhedchaal) have all ended up being in a totally wrong field..all they do is browse, gossip and consume free tea + coffee and yet at the end of the day, they crib abt their packages as if they are discovering electricity every god-damn day..they continue to do it until they become Project Managers, from whereon they become *******s! ..
@agree with Chiraindia :)
A lot of intelligent people irrespective of what talent they possess end up being engineers... some of them manage to get out of the mundaneness loop and "break free" and end up being writers :)
Engineers write novels, become amateur photographers, trekkers and what-nots... They do all this mostly to escape from the mundane life at work, spent staring at machines and gadgets!
Hmmmm.... but that can happen we person in any occupation.
Everyone can get bored at one point of time, its not specific to engineers.
Although i am not an engineer , i belong to english literature field...writing and reading are natural to me...even i wonder why ???
Engineers do not stare at machines but read/study them. Just as we do not stare at books but read/study them.
I think most of the engineers get into some boring job and they find themselves in the moddle of a crowd where they have nothing else to talk about other than job. when this kind of life continues we look for different things in life.. writing and blogging is just one of them..
They write coz they are creative..... Look at our exam answers. Only engineers can score good marks after studying only for a day prior to paper...... Our mind is full of creative stuff..Hence, we write :D
yes correct.... engineers are creative
we write stories beacause our faculties want 2 page answer for a question which can be answered in 2 lines. they count the number of papers than the number of points..
hahaha the best explanation
If 10% of all educated people love writing and 60% of all educated people get an engineering degree, what's the probability of of a writer being an engineer. I hope you get the answer ;-)
When you want to write, you write - That's it!