I can not write. Or read. Or even spell. I am completely illiterate and I had to dictate this post to my cat.

Sometimes I’m compelled to write. But once the gist is down, expanding it becomes a chore like vacuuming that I’d rather not deal with.

So, no. I can’t say I “like” to write.

No, I don’t I don’t mind editing and re-writing but I don’t enjoy the first round of writing.

@Blueroses
Have you clicked on the link yet?
It has Prompts for creative writing.

Yes, I did @Inspired_2write and thank you.

My problem is never with starting. I have thousands of projects begun. It’s my ingrained notion of stating and reducing things precisely into a few sentences so as not to bore myself or my reader that makes me say “OK, done with that. I don’t want to do any more with it.” and I don’t want to do the laundry either

Yes, very much. I choose the essay, the exposition and the reportorial.

@Blueroses: What inspired bit of spellcheck generated once the gist is down, it becomes a chore…?

I do and I don’t.

I’m writing something now (or not – hence I’m here), that’s like pulling teeth. It’s actually hurting my brain. Two pages of hell.

For me the first draft of anything is often more of a brainstorming session and I have to avoid getting bogged down in editing and overthinking and try to get in my ‘just let it go’ zone. It can feel like dredging my brain for coherant thoughts that say what I need to say. Once the ideas are down in some semblance of shape – it becomes more pleasurable.

At other times, the words flow like music and I love it.

So it depends what I’m writing, its purpose and the audience.

And now – back to my hell.

@Bellatrix I feel your pain.

I hate the pressure of having or wanting to write, either for pay or for personal expression. But when I’ve completed the writing task, it’s like that sudden realiization a throbbing headache has subsided.

Of course that sweet moment is always quickly followed by the familiar realization that what I’ve written, whatever I’ve written, isn’t as good as the interior writer-I-long-to-be shouts, “Not good enough, not good enough,” and no matter how many rewrites, it never is.

I really do enjoy writing, in the past I would just write for the heck of it. I also wrote poems although I never really understood the correct way to construct poetry. For me it was an expression that just sort of flowed. They were not rhyming, but more dark and about feelings and the rawness of life. Or sudden insights that I enjoyed. Recently I have started writing articles for a minimum pay out. But if you write enough I reckon I could earn an OK salary. Which I think is great really! Formulated or directional writing is not as much fun as creative though I have to say.

When I get an idea that I feel excited about, yes!! I am writing a novel right now. It started out as a “short story” but then I came up with too many plans for it. Next thing I know it’s 50,000 words. I’m having a blast.

Yep.

I love writing! Top 3 favorite genres.
Poetry, satire and humor.
I want to do stand up comedy someday, on my bucket list and have notebooks galore with themes and stories and jokes and comedy topics.
I am fast minded, quick witted and great at improv.

Someday I will step out on stage. :-D

@gailcalled I don’t understand your criticism.

I’m not being critical. I simply don’t understand what that phrase means. “Once the gist is down” makes no sense to me. Did you mean to write “gist”?

I do, and I do it for a living.

I’ve never been inclined to write a novel or something, though.

@gailcalled, I know she will correct me if I’m wrong but I think @Blueroses is saying once she has the essence of the piece on the page she loses interest for it. I think for her the essence, the gist, is the creative process that goes into imagining the bones of the story or writing. Once the work moves past the initial conceptualising, and gets down to the work of fleshing it out and then editing and proofreading – the joy is gone.

^^^Ah.

Only when I really get into the mood.

Nope, that’s about the gist of it ;-}

Yes, I prefer to write articles that are both amusing and informative. The company I work for sends out a quarterly newsletter and I write the majority of it. I always struggle getting strated but once I do I’m usually on a roll.

I enjoy writing, but I don’t have the stamina for novels or anything longer than a short blog entry.

yes. Exactly what @Bellatrix said

I like writing up my diary at the end of the day. If I have an idea for a poem I have a love hate relationship with it until it is written and then for a moment it shines brilliantly before fading into dullness.

@flutherother Keep journalling, in the end you would have a novel!