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The phrase "attempting to write" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the action of trying to compose text or create written content.
Example: "I spent the afternoon attempting to write my novel, but I kept getting distracted."
Alternatives: "trying to write" or "working on writing".
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"I wasn't attempting to write any generationally specific movie.
Even attempting to write about it is a performance.
I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose – that would be suicidal.
Stein is rendered as a confused young woman recovering from an unhappy lesbian love affair and dazedly attempting to write.
It is silent and even when installing apps while attempting to write this review it barely got warm.
In other words what I've been doing for the last three years or so, in attempting to write another novel.
Fry spent the arctic winter of 1946-7 agovering over the commission and attempting to write with frozen hands.
So he clung to chance encounters in the hall, during breaks, in order to speak with his father, about whom he is now attempting to write a book.
Wherever possible, quantitative series should be presented graphically; nothing is drearier, as Hexter notes, than attempting to write out a series of numbers in prose.
She is attempting to write about the "Ascension of the Abstract", in this case the indescribability of music and the power and patterns it contains.
Portions of the story are in the form of letters from John to his teacher regarding a story he is attempting to write for class.
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