For all those out there who just enjoy sitting back at night (or frankly any time of day) and writing stories, screenplays, journals, diaries, or for their school newspaper, I think this could be a good place to share your thoughts and interests with others. I enjoy writing books, and even screenplays, and I aspire to be published some day. I mainly focus on fantasy or science fiction with some romance or horror themes. What about you?

I don't write too often, but when I do I enjoy it and get really into it for a while but my enthusiasm always peters out with time. I don't even know how many unfinished stories I have lying around Now I mostly write the occasional short story or fan fiction of whatever game I'm currently into.

But I am planning to keep a journal while I'm in the Army hopefully by next year, don't know what I'll do with it, I see a lot of soldier's journals published and sold at book stores but I don't know if I could go through all the trouble of having that done. In any case, it'd be nice to show the grand kids...provided I have some.

I'm far too busy with school and Skyrim for all that. I used to really enjoy writing...until I went to college. I'm nearly finished with this 30 page paper and just can't find the strength to write the last paragraph and do the formatting!

To tell the truth i've gotten started on a book/novel and i'm in a sort of writers block trying to figure out where to go. What's really funny is i've stopped writing for now focusing on fanfiction in that MLPFIM universe that Lauren Faust created. Strangely it feels easy to write some fanfiction using that as a test to see how well I can write stuff. Only thing that is unusual is I can't write during the day only at night when I feel comfortable thinking about the dark stuff.

Unfortunately though i've always wanted to write, i've never gotten round to it, i always have this nagging feeling in the back of my head that i may be unintentionally copying something i saw many years ago and have since forgotten about, or that what i'm writing is simply boring or unoriginal, stops me every time from putting pen to paper hehe.

I'm studying for a degree in journalism / radio, so yeah I'm pretty involved with my uni magazine and all that.

I'm also writing two novellas. One is fully structured and is nearly finished, the other is just a collection of ideas/ extracts and character development pieces. I don't really know what I want to do with them though.

Same here. I do have a story I consider good, and it has been floating around for four years now and I got pretty much the whole story ready down to some word-to-word dialogue. I don't really trust my own skills though, maybe it's just better to let it be a dream. When I work, alone and running around the city, I usually sink into the thoughts of my story and make it better. It has gone through quite an evolution.

Writers block can definitely svck. How to fix it: read other books, take MINOR parts and somehow think 'how could this have been in my story.' a random idea should start and then you can begin writing. Or write about the characters' background which will further open more doors and find out interesting ways to connect them with plots and other characters. Make a history of your fictional world or whatever.

There is a book series I have been plotting for two and a half years now, consisting of two trilogies. I keep wanting to write it, but never get down to it. It's a fantasy story with a combination of midevil and mythical atmospheres.

I mainly work with fantasy and sci-fi things.

I did create a personal world, the setting, and it was the first thing I did far before I decided to create a coherent story. It's very complex and I consider it a realistic sci-fi setting and all I now would need to put it on paper. A growing itch has been urging me to start it, and I a few weeks ago made the perfect opening for my story (undoubtedly the most difficult part in writing!) I did, however, create a Word file where I massed up all my ideas, since as a result of my greatest one-man-brainstormings I got a truckload of good ideas but lost some of them by the time I got home.

I suppose I should just get over the lack of self-respect. Unfortunately it reaches far beyond just writing, it dominates my entire life.

My story is a fantasy/science fiction series consisting of eight books, evolving around children of power, dragon riders, dark magicians, and all that stuff. I've writtin an in depth plot of every book.

Yup writers block is the agony and bane of any and all literary people out there hoping to conjure up something. I've heard of several ways around it with one being re-write what you have written in a different context. However that mostly applies when you have a character you created up against odds where there's no way out.