Do you find it hard sometimes to create smalltalk?

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I can't small talk.

I too struggle with small talk. Small talk had always baffled me and seemed pointless. As I see it now though, small talk helps NTs indirectly sense each other's mental state (which seems to be a big part of an NT's day). So for the non-mind-blind, it seems to serve a rather useful function. Despite this admittedly humble insight, I still suck at it. I probably always will.

I don't really have a lot to talk about, so I normally just say "Fine" to get my friends and family out of my hair. Personally, I prefer long meaningful conversations, which is why I'm normally not very talkative, especially towards people I don't know very well.

yes but Its getting better since Im taking medications they really calm you down and you're more willing to talk to strangers. Just give it a try.

I find it incredibly boring.
But I have learned in the past decade to do it here and there but not for sustained periods of time.
I have to work hard and it is as if I have to try to constantly think ahead of the person to stay on top of it. It is not pleasant, is tiring and is hard.

As a younger person I struggled with it a lot more. I was intense, or semi-mute or even MORE intense or monologuing.

One on one small talk with someone I know really well can be ok, just when a third person is introduced I go mute.
I kind of struggle a lot with small talk with a stranger, like the OP.
I haven't been around people for a long time so I don't know how I'll be. Last time was horrible which is probably why I have isolated myself. But within a week or less I shall know where I stand. I'm scared.

When I somehow find the strength and will to partake in smalltalk I tend to monologue almost every time. Somehow going from "Hey, how've you been?" to "...and that's why Superman is a [sissy]".

I have been trying to small talk more, talk to various people at work. The other day, i actually small talked in the elvator. The door made a wierd noise as it closed and the woman was walking in. I said i wanted to get off due the noise but actuall didn't, she then went on a long conversation about her firends getting stuck once. I felt bad leaving her while she was still talking. It works if you try.

I don't see myself as interesting and have a hard time with sustaining a conversation for long. Why would anyone want to talk with me? Do you like to talk about finance and theories of time travel?

Not Sometimes! The main thing I "learned" from a course in communication I "took" [long story] was the concept of "phatic communication". Some people, it was said, on occasion talk just for the sake of talking and bonding, with little or no serious communication content, with questions not meant to be answered.

I TRY to fake small talk with new people, but it is like salmon leaping up a river of molasses.

I'm not the best small talker, I'm all about the big talk. I'd rather go up to someone say hi and start talking about the subject in my head, and just do that. But I'm not supposed to so I have to do all that how are you nonsense beforehand.

I have a lot of trouble with smalltalk. I mean, what are you supposed to talk about? 'good morning, how are you?', and then? 'er...soooooo,' I'd just end up standing there like a fool. 'well...I guess I'll go now' I don't even know how it's proper to say you're leaving.