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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.

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.

(22-07-2025, 08:33 PM)Dirty Duck Wrote: [ -> ]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?