I am a story writer!  Not published or anything, I just enjoy writing, for me it is a stress relief.  Sometimes I google "story starters" and some interesting stuff comes up. There are websites that will give you a sentence or paragragh to use as a story starter.  I did that once and wrote about a warewolf that turned out to be a halloween prank.  It was a short story, only about five pages.  

I also wrote a short novel one time, oohh, I never get to talk about this and I love to tell people.  It is only about 120 pages (12 pt font, Times New Roman, Word document, single spaced).  It is about a woman who's family had all died, her fiance died, and she was paralyzed in a wheel chair so she was going to commit suicide thinking that she had nothing left to live for.  But then a mysterious stranger came to her and they fell in love.  Well, (and am turning pink here with embarrasment) he was a vampire.  They lived together for a long time and all the time he hid his dark secret from her.  But she found out.  Well, the story goes and he turned her into a vampire as well and the healing properties of vampire blood made her terrible back injury go heal and she was able to walk again, but she was now a vampire, no long able to see the light of day, required to sustain her life by taking the lives of human victims.  But her and her lover were finally able to be truely together, untill his brother, who is evil, showed up and ties to take her...and it goes on.
This was the first novel that I have ever finished and it turned out pretty good if I do say so myself.

Now I am writing a story about a woman who goes up to live in the wilderness of Alaska.  I am only about five pages into this one.  I love writing, wish I was writing right now!

Good luck with your writing.  You don't need to publish it, just have fun.

Along baypuppy's line...I figure that there is a reason why veganism is not mentioned as a way to save the planet.  In the US, and perhaps in Canada, the agricultural industry has fairly deep pockets and they do a lot of lobbying and advertising.  I trust that I won't see see an Earth Day program that mentions going veg because I know that the network producing it counts on the money from the milk board, the cattleman's associations and the Other White meat to fund their programming.  You don't umm well shhh where you eat, right? (except that when you eat meat you take a step in the direction of shhh-ing where you eat, Planet Earth!)

It would be very interesting to ask the question of why veganism isn't suggested as a counter measure against global warming.  I doubt it is as simple as the diet being "too difficult" or that being vegan is for hippies and subversives, but rather has to do with money, as so many things do. 

I recall after 9/11 the mayor of NYC at the time and GWB telling us about the war on terror (should be terrorISM.  The war against terror means not allowing yourself to live in fear).  They were telling Americans to carry on their daily lives and spending money was helpful for the war and the economy, or something about like that.  It seemed to me they were saying:  Just live your life like we aren't at war, it is not that big of a deal.  Now, we all know about global warming these days, it is everywhere.  Just walk outside right now and I am sure you can feel it, I can.  So...does this mentality continue on?  We are looking at global warming, feeling it daily, and we are being told to go to low flush toilets and turn off the lights when we leave a room...essentially don't really make any changes in your life, so we have global warming, it isn't that big of a deal.

Global warming has no fix.  The best was can do is maintain the status quo.  Just like the war in Iraq, we are continuing to live our lives like nothing is happening.  Spend big, super size me, eat it all like there is no tomorrow.  There may be no tomorrow now.

I digressed and rambled as I do, but I had an idea in there I think...