I used to be able to write. About 10 years ago, I stumbled across something on the 'net while doing some personal research. It's a genre called "fan fiction." It's where a person writes about a book, a movie, a TV show, that they've read and want to take it further than the author or writers did. In my case, it deals with an old 1960s sci-fi show called "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea." It was playing on TV one day and we'd just gotten conntected to the net, so I popped the words into word search and up comes several sites that fans had made. I couldn't believe it.
Ultimately, I found a few sites that had stories on them about the characters in the old show. Considering not much was done back in the 60s as far as tie-ins (books, comics, etc), it was interesting to see what this was all about. It led me to what's called "printzines" and webzines. (I run my own website with another lady). Anyway, I decided one day to try my hand at writing. Now, mind you, the only writing I'd ever done was legalistic in nature - memos, briefs, research. To suddenly come up with what turned out to be >80 pages of a story and THEN have it turn into a trilogy, only to have it snowball into a partnership with a "sister" I found, and write erotica - jeez! (BTW, that's not as easy to do as one thinks).
Anyway, right now, the muse has left and I can't get her back. I keep printing off ideas as I find them, stories from the news cause we updated and modernized the original storyline. I just want to find some time for myself to get back into writing. I need to. I want to. I have to.
Problem is..........right now, there's no time.
And I'm bummed as hell.
You're absolutely right, of course. However, nowadays, I just can't seem to find 10 minutes without something going on or even when I do, my mind just even in it. Maybe it's got more to do with setting than anything else right now. At this point, I'm seriously considering activating the speech tool on MS Word and dictating whatever comes into my mind. I've never used it and don't know how it'd do, but if it can get me out of this rut...I'm willing to try.