I'm pretty happy for you
I love to write as well, and have written one unpublished book.
its very true that writing helps a lot in expressing ourselves and i think that alone could be the reason for why we love to write.
turning thoughts and ideas into real action is probably the most hard task in the whole process; but once you got started, you bigen to build up momentum and energy which will push you forwards all along the way, then it gets hard to stop and slack off. But that mostly applies for achieving a work that represents a truly deeply desired goal.
Steve pavlina has written a great article on this subject titled:
How to
Take Action Consistently
if you haven't read it yet, you'd better do, its very inspiring.
good luck