Yes periodically, and then I stop myself because there are easier and happier ways to make living
As to inspiration – I wouldn't worry about it – I was listening to a podcast called Writing Excuses for the last 10 or 12 years, and generally, their attitude to it is that inspiration and ideas are cheap if you sit down and write every single day. And I have to concur, my day job does require quite an of original thinking, and I thought I would run out of ideas after the first few weeks of work, but instead, I get too many ideas, and now I write them down and forget about them.
Generally, you will have a lot of ideas, once your brain knows that this is what you doing.
But I know some writers, who were let's say medium-success, never made to Best Seller list but were pretty close to it – they told me that they'd make more money if they worked in Starbucks.
The second thing about "writing" is – it's a lie, most of the time you will spend – rewriting. As Neil Gaiman said – the first draft goes straight to the bin, and then we can start on second draft, which might be passable. So it's about 20% of the writing, and then 80% of rewriting and editing.
Btw – the same thing about most things. People shoot movies in 2 weeks, and they edit and cut them for the next 6-12 months, consultants come up with strategies in few hours and then edit and refine them for next weeks, and programmers spend most of the time editing existing code rather than writing new. The process of creation is not in creation, but editorial.
That said I still write, I just know I will never publish it, and it will never get beyond the third draft, but it's pleasurable nevertheless.
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