I've written stories and tales since... since I learned to write, basically.
I have a fantasy story/novel that is nearly done (has been for quite a while, actually) that I plan on releasing on-line when it is really done. I'll post a link by that time.
I usually write when I have the need to `escape' from the outside world and live, as it were, in my own fantasy.

Oh I always get ideas for books (if by books you mean fiction) which at first glance might seem like a good read. Then I try and write them down, and after the first paragraph or so I begin to realize that the idea actually sucks, or more common, that the idea doesn't really expand much beyond the first paragraph...:-/

I'd post some here - the proze is reasonably good, even if the story and setting are riddled with cliches (that's on purpos, though), but the version I have on my homepage atm is very old and contains a LOT of spelling errors (a lot more than are in my current version).

It's hard work. No fun at all :|

And I'm behind schedule. Need to do some writing... cu

I once wrote for a sort of fun magazine.

The following article went on to be the cover story of that issue.

Well it was spoof on one of the crappiest (but most successful) soaps out here.

You will find it Here

Warning You might not be able to make any sense out of it at all coz you have neevr seen the soap and you are not missing anything.

I read what must've been the shortest short story ever a few days ago - "Star Light" by Isaac Asimov. It was three and a half pages long.

Bjarne Stroustrup.

There's some Spanish guys doing a remake of the classic 8 bit game Head over Heels. They had attempted to write a "History" but the English was so bad and the story generally lame that I offered to rewrite it in better English!! I also expanded on it quite a bit... nothing spectacular
I think it's at:

http://usuarios.lycos.es/hoh2/uk/index.htm

(Sorry I don't know how to make an active link in a message)

Any book I might write would be either a scifi or fantasy, or maybe a bit of both...

If I'd write a book it might be called something like "Pocket Gnomes" or "Zen Gardening In Three Easy Steps!!!!!!!", and it would be rather Pratchettian. In fact, I might consider changing my name to Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches and write a funny book about cats.

I always get cool ideas for stories, but its so much hard work to actually put them into a story that is enjoyable and readable, and that you actually finish.
Actually, I think that wanting to write stories is something that we all have in common (as game programmers that is). Its the urge to create a world. I know when I was younger, I always wrote short stories, and made up characters, and stuff like that. When I was really young I would take a piece of paper and design amusment parks or shopping malls, etc on them. I also when through a phase where I loved making up board games and then getting my parents to play them with me.
Writing a game is just another way to express your creativity. Artists draw, musicians compose, writers write, and we program games.
I wish I could write good stories, but I can't seem to stick with it long enough, so game programming is a natural outlet: you can write a story for a game easily, and you can create an entire world for your characters to live in.
Anyway, I think I'm rambling now...its kinda late, and I've been studying calculus all day, so my brain is pretty well mush.

One friend id writing a story which will be converted to an RPG
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It's about an old city, that is in the middle of the enemy territory. These bad guys want to invade it. There are ogres, elves, and all these beings.
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The last time I printed it, there where about 100 A4 pages

I still think that somebody should write a book about allegro!