Is writing your hobby?

[hishandmaiden]

Writing is a hobby of mine, is it yours, too?

 

[Christ_empowered]

To a certain extent yes. Care to share anything? Or not so much?

 

[bramblewild]

It's not my job or profession, but I think it's something more than "just" a hobby.

 

[Hidden In Him]

Not sure I’d call it a hobby. I regard it as more of an art form, minus the typos.

 

[KatieKatt]

Does journaling count?

 

[Christ_empowered]

I count it, yes. Can definitely help with writing skills…

 

[daninthelionsden]

I've written a little bit. I wrote a few poems, songs, parodies and one book. I started my autobiography, but stopped as I feel that the powers that be will never let that see the light of day

 

[SailorWriter]

I want to be a writer (preferably a fiction writer) as it gives me an easy way to tell my stories. Though I am still amateurish and tend to procrastinate, soooo.....

In short, yeah it's my main hobby.

 

[Elijah7777]

Writing is a hobby of mine, is it yours, too?

*"As a C student in school, I never considered myself much of a writer. But recently, I've been using AI, and I’m amazed at the results. When we were growing up, there was an old beaver pond where we used to ice skate. Near it stood the remnants of a small house, its foundation the only thing left from at least 100 years ago. It was a small house and there was a dock for a boat she had for the pond. Maybe she was eating fish and frogs. There were a lot of beautiful oak trees and it looked like she was buring all the old dead wood to keep warm. She maybe did not have the money to buy coal. So she just lived of of the land.

Using AI, we crafted a story about the place. For example, we imagined that a woman once lived there with her donkey. Since there was no space to keep an animal, she must have rented a spot in a nearby farmer’s barn. The area now has a post–World War II housing development, which might have been the farm back then.

Then, we decided she had a book of magic spells—ones that couldn’t be published. Instead, she painstakingly made hand-written copies and sold them to earn money for groceries and survival." They have a special fancy name for books like that. She would not have been able to live in Salam. People did tell stories about her.

So it is all very interesting. AI makes suggestions and we make a choice on how we want our story to go.

I also worked in a few stories of where people find an abandoned safe and the cracked it open to be amazed at what was inside. For example maybe someone was having an affair and they kept all of their love letters in the safe and little gifts they give each other. They wanted to lock it up to hide it from the world.

There is a youtube about an old mafia bosses house. Homes like that are often abandoned because the taxes are so high on them. Perhaps that would be interesting to get into his safe to see what he was hiding from people about all of his illegal activities. There was a guest house where a person lived that counted his money and keep records of all of his accounts. The stuff a court of law would love to get a hold of.

Life can be dull but we can spice it up if we go looking into the secrets people are hiding. Esp if we can find the mafia bosses safe and what he was hiding.

The late Salvatore "Big Sal" Moretti had ruled his crime empire from the shadows, his sprawling mansion an impenetrable fortress of secrets. His trusted accountant, Vincent DeLuca, had spent decades meticulously recording every transaction, every payoff, every betrayal—but only in the books meant for the IRS. The real records, the ones that could dismantle an empire, were kept elsewhere.

During demolition, workers stumbled upon something unusual—a false wall in Moretti’s old study. Behind it, an iron safe, untouched by time. It took days to crack, but when they did, they found more than dusty ledgers. Stacks of cash, photographs of politicians in compromising situations, records of rigged elections, and the names of every dirty cop on his payroll.

When news reached the authorities, retired detective Frank Calhoun, who had spent his life trying to bring Moretti down, couldn’t believe it. This was the smoking gun, the kind of evidence that would have dismantled the syndicate overnight. But Moretti was gone, his empire shattered, his heirs scattered. All that remained were cold cases, unanswered questions, and a safe full of ghosts.

The internet is filled with stories that people begin but never work with the idea to finish it. Maybe they want to see what people are really interested in so they can work with that story to develop it.