How much do you write for 1) your career and 2) spare time?

[Jenson71]

Writing is a serious chore for me when it's a topic I'm not exploring for fun. But, my future career will require my writing all the time. And, unfortunately, I'm not too good at it.

In my spare time, I write occasionally. Mostly here or on another site. I do not write poetry, letters, or books in my spare time, but I do like the idea of doing so.

[BigRock]

I write erotic fanfic about the former NBC sitcom Wings.

[blaise]

I put moderately, because (for the spare time) even though I sit down and write quite a bit I'm bad at budgeting my time. Not nearly as much as I should. I normally need a deadline of some kind, and a lot of the time I'll write a bunch in the days before a deadline. I'm terrible at grammar so I gave up on writing short stories and that kind of thing, so I only like writing dialogue . I know that is supposed to be correct also, but there's more leeway with it.
For my job I type all day, but it's almost all numbers- financial type stuff.

[cdcox]

I probably fall somewhere between the moderate and extensive category for work.

The only writing I do in my free time is on here.

The hardest thing about writing is to get the first draft down on paper. Writing de novo is painful. To do that, I have to get in the groove, which is the second hardest thing about writing. I can waste hours just getting to the point where the words start flowing. Then boom I'm on my way. My time is more fragmented now that it was in the past, so I have fewer opportunities to hit my stride. So writing seems harder now than it did in the past.

[KurtCobain]

Originally Posted by KC Fish

Only on the bathroom walls...

With poop?

[Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan]

I'm a Tech Writer/Analyst at work, so as you can imagine I do a lot of writing, editing, formatting, stylized writing and PowerPoint slide creating/reviewing. *sigh*

I also am working on a couple of short stories and novels in my "copious" spare time in the evenings.

I also assist with the Writer Beware committee for the Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers of America.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan

I'm a Tech Writer/Analyst at work, so as you can imagine I do a lot of writing, editing, formatting, stylized writing and PowerPoint slide creating/reviewing. *sigh*

I also am working on a couple of short stories and novels in my "copious" spare time in the evenings.

I also assist with the Writer Beware committee for the Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers of America.

You've published some novels based on... Gauntlet (I think that's correct?), right? That's pretty awesome.

[vailpass]

roses are red
violets are blue
I'm schizophrenic
and so am I

[Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan]

Originally Posted by NewChief

You've published some novels based on... Gauntlet (I think that's correct?), right? That's pretty awesome.

Correct. I did a novelization based on the Gauntlet Dark Legacy game and submitted the sequel (which unfortunately didn't get printed - but at least I got paid. ). I've also done a novella and a short story set in the Star Trek Universe, a Dr. Who short story and an Incredible Hulk short story.

Trying to get some original stuff published now.

[durtyrute]

Originally Posted by Jenson71

Writing is a serious chore for me when it's a topic I'm not exploring for fun. But, my future career will require my writing all the time. And, unfortunately, I'm not too good at it.

In my spare time, I write occasionally. Mostly here or on another site. I do not write poetry, letters, or books in my spare time, but I do like the idea of doing so.

I love to write, well I love to write about the things that I want to write about. May I ask, what job do you do that involves alot of writing?

[Lonewolf Ed]

I write many erotic stories for women to keep their hearts burning with desire in these bleak, sad times we live in.

[WV]

Should the name be changed to typing? If I had to physically write half of what I do (which is very little) it would be even less.

[durtyrute]

Originally Posted by Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan

I'm a Tech Writer/Analyst at work, so as you can imagine I do a lot of writing, editing, formatting, stylized writing and PowerPoint slide creating/reviewing. *sigh*

I also am working on a couple of short stories and novels in my "copious" spare time in the evenings.

I also assist with the Writer Beware committee for the Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers of America.

You get paid to write for fun? And you write at work. Where do I sign up

[Inspector]

Whenever I try to write, I just go blank right in the middle of a sent

[Jenson71]

A sentence from The New Yorker:

"The age of atomic energy could be said to have begun, literally, with the wave of a wand."

I think the sentence sounds better like this:

"One could [or: might] say the age of atomic energy began, literally, with the wave of a wand."

Is my sentence better than The New Yorker's?

[Bill Lundberg]

If it's going to be your future career and you're not to good at it then may I suggest you pursue another future career. Perhaps one that you are good at. Otherwise you could end up being 35 years old and not know what you want to be when you grow up which is never a good thing...