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As an English major at university, I'm writing essays all the time. If I like the text that I'm writing about, I actually enjoy writing the essays.

When I took a creative writing class, I actually had great difficulty writing on demand. I produced something really amazing and something really terrible because I found it so difficult to turn on the creativity. I actually find it easier to write an essay to a deadline than something creative.

In high school, I get to write in creative writing club and any English-related course. Sometimes I get chances to do a bit of creative writing in different courses, like history. We'd have to 'write in role' for a specific character from a certain century/historical event for a test. That's basically it. T.T



Ahhh yes, getting the crap beaten out of you by your teachers. I can relate. *Shudders*

I'd gone to an alternative school at one point and we didn't even have creative writing then!

(Of course, to put some of that jabber of those beatings in school into perspective, there was a lot of handsiness and abuse of authority in my school. It wasn't exactly all laughs when a kid was forced into a chair or screamed at incessantly for something innocent.)

When I was in school (middle and high school) I got to write all the time because I made the time. Study hall in high school and any time between notes. Any down time was writing time when I didn't have other things.

I loved writing essays. I was that kid who would ask what the maximum page count could be.

The most difficult is picking a topic and sticking to boundaries when you're given something too specific to write about.

The best thing, for me, was getting to research something and learn something new. Getting to write and show that I guess.

In college it was harder for me to find the time to write because I couldn't in class and I had more homework that took up more time. If I had a test day I'd go into one of the main areas and read or write out there while I could or I'd sit and talk to people on the computer. It all varies.

Now I don't have classes (I'm paying debt to go back and get a degree for work) but I do have work and I'll get ideas and write them on scrap pieces of paper when I'm at work. Or I'll shoot myself an e-mail from work so I can look at that when I get home. While at home I'm usually thinking about writing, taking notes, researching, talking with people (about many things not just writing) and reading while listening to music or watching something on T.V. I'm pretty notorious for being able to watch a movie on the T.V. without ever looking at the screen.