Good morning everyone (or whatever time of day it is where you are) 🌞 I was setting up for my morning writing session, and I thought of making a post to get to know other writers here on PB.

Do any of you write, as a hobby or professionally? What kind of stories, poetry, etc. do you write, and in what language(s)? Are you currently working on anything specific? Tell us a bit about yourself, and let's get to know each other! Feel free to also link any profiles where you post your writing or any of your publications.

I've always written for fun ever since I was a kid, and I would love to get published someday, but it's hard to find the time to work on longer projects as an adult! I write mostly in Spanish, and mostly sci-fi and horror, although I don't limit myself when it comes to genre and also like to write poetry here and there.

I don't post my writing anywhere, and I only share it with classmates when I occasionally take a writing course for fun, mostly because most online writing spaces I know are in English and I don't have the energy to keep up a blog 😅 Maybe I'll take some inspiration from everyone's replies 🫶

My short-term goal is to start participating in writing contests to get over the awkward feeling that comes from sharing my writing, and to see if I'd be able to make a little bit of money from writing 🤞 My medium-term goal is to finish a sci-fi novel I'm working on that examines themes of community, survival, and finding meaning in just sharing a life with each other when our world falls apart.

What about everyone else? 😊

I feel like a lot of what I do can be easily associated with reading, hobbies like crochet and listening to music, pair well with reading, either an audiobook and something to do with my hands, or a physical book and background noise, and writers are almost always readers, so I fit pretty well into those boxes, but what about my hobbies that stray from book adjacent and book compatible? I like to paint from time to time, and that's a nightmare to do while I read. I also like to talk to people, and I think it'd be quite rude of me to open up my newest library hold while asking about someone's day. (I consider talking to people a hobby. Yeah.)

So, my question for you all: What's the least bookish thing you like to do? Are their any hobbies that pair horribly with reading? I'd hate to be a horror book fan, and someone who explored abandoned buildings, for example.