How many people write for pleasure?

[BlindMessiah94]

Yes and it is national poetry month in Canada (although they are doing frak all about it.)

 

[FightThePower]

I've written Game Reviews in the past for pleasure. I don't do poetry or creative writing because I'm not...well, creative enough.

 

[Shjade]

I used to do it much more often than I do now. I don't know what it is but reading and writing online, forums, etc. really seems to dull my capacity for creative writing - I think my analytical and creative thought processes just don't like each other much so when one comes out to play the other takes his toys and goes home.

When I get a spark, though, I can write for hours without coming up for air. And it is wonderful. Finished my novel for NaNoWriMo with about 10 days left in the month because I just got into it and flew. ...but I still haven't touched it since then for editing. x.x;

 

[JanatUrlich]

I write to my pen friends, but that's pretty much it

 

[AdmanUK]

I started writing a book when I was ten and am still trying to write it today. However the story has changed so drastically so many times that I am still working on the first chapter. I constantly am juggling the alignment of characters at different points in the story between revisions. My main character has changed so many times, at one point I ended up revising the entire story that I had and taking my main character at the time and splitting him into two sub characters and then creating a new main from scratch.

Though chaotic at times I thoroughly enjoy it, it allows me to be unlimitedly creative.

I am in the exact same situation haha I just let my imagination run away with itself and by the time I have reeled it back in the story no longer makes sense.

 

[cheese_wizington]

I write occasionally, I just wish I could do film... there's so much more you can do in that field.

 

[TheDoctor455]

I love the process of writing. But I do tend to hate most of my work when I'm finished.

 

[Julianking93]

I do it when I feel like it, which is a bit too rare. I should write more considering how much I love doing it, it's just that I can get bored easily.

 

[Samuel Cook]

I write some buttery lyrics, but I can only do aggressive lyrics, I've tried doing different stuff but it's just not as good.

 

[nick n stuff]

i used to write alot and i thought they stuff i wrote was the dogs when writing them. i stopped however when i came across something i had written a few months before and was pained to see how shit it really was. stopped me in my stride

 

[psyfai]

Started during high school, trying to distract myself from emo poems with fanfiction and then original fiction. Right now, I'm working on a story of a reaally bad assassin, and then another about a teenage delinquent who was framed (Spoiler warning).

 

[Klarinette]

I keep three hand-written journals, four online ones, and I write essays because I like to.

D: NERD.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I post instead.

 

[zaddra]

I love writting! In fact I want to be an author. This past Novermber I spent the entire month writing a 50,000 word novella and I hope to have it published soon. But alas I feel your pain of not having enough time to write... but school work must take priority.

 

[Captain Pancake]

If I had the time, trust me, I would write my ass off. I'd probably write so much you'd demand I stop writing because you were sick of my productivity. But 5th year of high school is a bad time to dedicate to anything other than school work up here in the cold northern wastes of Britain.

 

[Charli]

There have been times where I have just word splurged, and I've felt better after it, it comes at extremely random times though I'm afraid, it's not a solid hobby like drawing.

 

[Delock]

I write out several stories at once. Hell, one's currently on it's 24th chapter and has been ongoing for a year (I took a hiatus from if to work on a comic for a competition).

I still hate writing stuff for a grade though.

 

[bartman675]

I write comics( not the artwork ) just the dialog, setting, and action friend of mine does the artwork

 

[TheFacelessOne]

Yes.

Unfortunately, they get no where.

I have like 50 gazillon files that were starting as "promising" novels, but fail.