Your paragraph "Why do so many people want to write these days' seemed to me to be more general to all writers, not just the direction of your story.

I have to admit I was laughing at some articles that some people have written about how to get stories more visibility and the how to's on actual writing when clearly they haven't been around long enough to be qualified to do so. But, they're being published and people are reading them! So as long as that continues, so will they.