I have a degree in English and journalism. So I guess I could be considered "trained," to a certain extent. I dabble with prose, am considering a screenplay, write special interest stuff (mostly on fly fishing) for the local paper, and dabble with the poem.

Regarding the script/screenplay: I am considering re-searching a football game that took place in the mid 1950's in Anchorage, Alaska. One team was just the local high school team (of which, at that time, there was only one) and an all-star team from Texas. It was called the "Snow Bowl," for obvious reasons. I talked to a guy who played in this game and his story BLEW ME AWAY. We'll see how it pans out, but it has a lot of potential, due to the historical context and the stories surrounding the way that this game evolved into a reality.

Sounds like a really interesting piece of work and I'd love to know when it's published. Good luck with the challenge.
Doc

I journal almost every day when I am at work. I have penned a few songs and I have started roughing out a book on collecting. However I would not qualify myself as a writer.
Dan

I write poetry
I do not like the Haiku's
They should have to rhyme

I write incident reports at work.For example;

At 11:05PM Mechanic Smith stated that he was trained to kill and would kill
everyone in the Post Office.I told him that such language was unacceptable
and that I would summon the authorities.He replied "Fuck You".And so on..........

Winslow

I used to write a lot, but lately I've found myself in a bit of a drought. I still play my songs occasionally, but it's few and far between.

I write poety from time to time but most of my time when i can get around to it is spent in basic arts .. painting sculpting and genral studio stuff.. i miss it being in the military and living in a 9x 14 foot room i cant do as much except draw in my sketchbooks. but i hope to take my sculpting background and sometime give my shot at sculpting/carving a few pipes.

I do a bit of writing; songs, poems, essays and fiction. I've been published in several national magazines and quite a few "specialty" publications, and on on topics ranging from double shotguns, hunting and fishing to British sports cars, baseball and, of course, pipe smoking!

Trout Bum, I love your idea of the football game story; I hope you do it and would love to read it.

I do a lot of business writing. My wife has been trying to get me to write a book, but I've yet to pull the trigger on that little project. I don't like doing research, and I it takes a lot of research to write books well (from what I hear)

Not a published writer, but I love to write. Mainly short story prose. Did some poetry for the girls, but it has to rhyme, which is not my specialty. I've written alot of funny stuff.

I did write a novel, started it in high school, worked on it for 4 years in college. Finished it a year later. I was trying to edit it as it was over 1000 pages. You will love this: it disappeared one day.... Not that I believed it could be published.

I need to see if I can find some of my short stories. They may be good if for nothing more than a chuckle.

Writing went the day of the dinosaur as I work long hours now. Really forums took the place of writing.

Hello all
I wrote two books "My Love My Pipe" which is a funy little book 76 pages on o course pipes and all the problems one has on learning the skill of becomming a pipe man. and "Reflexions" a 277 page book on my life both can be seen on www.lulu.com under charles hester
Best Regards
Richard

Hey guys, would love to read your poems if you'd be willing to show them, it seems like there are a great many members on here that are interested in literature in some faculty, would be great to get some poems or short stories down lol I know that sounds a little bit against the grain but would love something to contribute to every now and then