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.

[MOhillbilly]

Zero. To many words.

[KurtCobain]

I like writing short stories.

[DaKCMan AP]

Write a lot of test reports for work in addition to emails, statuses, test plans, etc.

Currently, also have to write for certain courses in school and then I sparingly write as a form of expression/outlet.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by MOhillbilly

Zero. To many words.

And yet...not quite enough letters.

[keg in kc]

Zero, unless you count emails.

Kind of funny, I talk about writing for 10 or 15 years, and the only thing I don't ever do is write.

I still wish I could find the self discipline to do it.

[Rain Man]

I write lots and lots and lots for work. Lots. Like, a whole lot.

I really like writing for pleasure, but right now I'm writed out. It's not that much fun for me to go home and do for another three hours what I just did for ten, and that's kind of sad.

[Buehler445]

What do you mean, "write"?

I do a hell of a lot of jotting, not a lot of prose being produced.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by KurtCobain

I like writing short stories.

Here's one I wrote recently:

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue

Post something stupid again, and I will destroy you.

Whatdoyathink?

[KurtCobain]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

Here's one I wrote recently:

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue

Post something stupid again, and I will destroy you.

Whatdoyathink?

It kinda hurt my feelings.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by KurtCobain

It kinda hurt my feelings.

Let's try this again (leafing through my book of prose......) Oh, here's one, short, but poignant:

GO ***** YOURSELF!

Better?

[Hammock Parties]

I enjoy writing poetry, but only on Chiefsplanet.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Jenson's a limp-wristed priss
and eats his own poo

[keg in kc]

I once new a man from nantucket
Whose dick was so long he could suck it
His name was not laz,
Or phobia or fraz-



I think like all good marriages, sexual encounters and gochiefs craigslist dates, things should end abruptly and unresolved.

[NewChief]

I just turned in about 250 pages (maybe half of those were my own work, and the rest were forms, photocopies of student work, and such) that I'd been working on this year for my National Boards. That was a lot of writing.

I have to write quite a bit (including emails), and it's fine. The main thing I dislike is that writing at work tends to waste my writing "energy," so I don't do as much writing for fun.

As for being a "good" writer, here's what I know as a writing instructor: as you write for your profession, you'll get better and better because you now have skin in the game. Trying to get young writers to have "skin in the game" is one of the real dilemmas facing writing instructors. Until its relevant and meaningful, trying to become a good writer (for someone who isn't a natural) is tough.

[Bugeater]

I took a comp class last fall and discovered that I actually enjoy writing, and I'm pretty good at it. But I won't do it unless I'm forced to, so to answer your question, spare time never, at work very little and it only consists of the paperwork I have to turn in.