Writing Chat

[Jassassino]

I know a few of us here enjoy writing, be it prose, poetry, reviews or just blog posts, so I figured it would be nice to set up a general chat topic for it. Feel free to share what you've written recently or just have a chat about methods, ideas and all sorts relevant to writing. 

I got into a nice string a few months ago of working on short stories every month and typing up script drafts. I've found myself a bit too busy lately, but looking forward to going back to it soon, feel like I have a few ideas on the backburner (the backburner being my notes app).

How do you fellas find the time and capability to schedule writing into your routines if you do? Anyone wanna do a writing club with me? Lmao.

[Dirty Duck]

There was a period where I was managing to work on something a bit every day but I only got so far as going through planning and forming the idea. I never got to the writing part. I was reading a book I picked up randomly for £3 about writing screenplays and it was more for features and my idea was envisioned as a short which made it a bit hard going through so much development techniques lol. I should get back to it really.

[Jassassino]

There was a period where I was managing to work on something a bit every day but I only got so far as going through planning and forming the idea. I never got to the writing part. I was reading a book I picked up randomly for £3 about writing screenplays and it was more for features and my idea was envisioned as a short which made it a bit hard going through so much development techniques lol. I should get back to it really.

That's pretty cool - I feel like I often have a lot of fun outlining and planning the writing I'd like to do, but less (albeit still somewhat) fun in the writing part. What's the screenwriting book you bought yourself?

[Dirty Duck]

There was a period where I was managing to work on something a bit every day but I only got so far as going through planning and forming the idea. I never got to the writing part. I was reading a book I picked up randomly for £3 about writing screenplays and it was more for features and my idea was envisioned as a short which made it a bit hard going through so much development techniques lol. I should get back to it really.

That's pretty cool - I feel like I often have a lot of fun outlining and planning the writing I'd like to do, but less (albeit still somewhat) fun in the writing part. What's the screenwriting book you bought yourself?

Late reply but it was this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1525...s_Workbook

I fell off hard and still need to get back to it, though I'm not sure I'd necessarily recommend this book yet. I haven't finished it and also just feel like I have no idea how it compares to similar "guides" as I haven't really read any. The chapters I read got me thinking and were at least broken down into activities as well as some prose to make you think and whatnot. I'm considering starting it again but pursuing a different idea that's more fitting for the feature structure the book assumes.

[Null]

Writing has been my whole career oddly, but I’ve never really flexed creatively. I’ve done plenty of advertising and marketing copy that I guess would count as “creative” in a sense, but I’ve never really written much for myself.

I think I lack the confidence to really bother. It’s like I’ll write to get paid but if I do anything more than that or something meaningful I might make the terrible mistake of trying or showing exertion, and that would be EXTREMELY embarrassing.

[Jassassino]

Writing has been my whole career oddly, but I’ve never really flexed creatively. I’ve done plenty of advertising and marketing copy that I guess would count as “creative” in a sense, but I’ve never really written much for myself.

I think I lack the confidence to really bother. It’s like I’ll write to get paid but if I do anything more than that or something meaningful I might make the terrible mistake of trying or showing exertion, and that would be EXTREMELY embarrassing.

Man it's surprising you haven't. I know you've done a tonne of copy for a living at points, so I thought you'd have a definite creative flex with fiction and/or non fiction.

I think one of the absolute worst things with writing (for me at least) is that, I'll type up all I want and can think of in a pretty quick stream at the time, and when it comes to proofreading it, I'll often wince at how bad it sounds, even though I'm well aware that a first draft is never really "good", I'm always so gutted (for some reason, despite knowing the process lmao) that it's just not as good as I wanted it to be straight out the gate.

[Helikaon]

Ah just found this thread! I'm an amateur writer, but it's probably my main passion in life. I was (very) briefly a sports journalist a few years ago, but that job fell through just as I was starting to find my feet in it. I was replaced by AI.

I started a blog a few months ago. This is my latest post if you wanna check it out:

https://site28021990.wordpress.com/2025/...ing-awake/

And I started a miniseries on MGS:

https://site28021990.wordpress.com/2025/...olid-1998/

Starting my MGS2 post soon. So fucking hard to write about though, despite it being my favourite in the series.

I want to turn pro. And I'm currently engaged in a part-time Open University degree in Creative Writing with the aim of just... learning about writing. Reading way more poetry than I ever thought I would, lmao.