A core part of my job is writing - but very dry corporatey stuff.

Or was, I'm going to change career.

So if I'm not writing professionally, then that may give me more passion to write more creatively. I've been known to write truly awful poetry after a few wines so hopefully I can improve on that. I do find that if I haven't written something that amuses me in a while, I start getting really toey and end up composing emails, Facebook entries, something/anything in my head so in that sense I "need" to write.