Poll: Hardest part of writing

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Hardest Element of Writing
Starting.	1 (5%)
Finishing.	3 (15%)
Coming up with a plot.	1 (5%)
Making the characters and their behavior seem realistic.	1 (5%)
Dialogue.	0 (0%)
Descriptive writing.	4 (20%)
Making it flow well.	2 (10%)
Evoking emotion.	1 (5%)
Showing, not telling.	2 (10%)
Editing.	2 (10%)
Avoiding black-and-white storytelling.	0 (0%)
Having the discipline to ignore distractions to sit down and write.	3 (15%)
Something else (explain what).	0 (0%)
Total Votes: 20

Poll: Hardest part of writing
Topic Started: Sunday Feb 21 2010, 09:31 PM (126 Views)
MonaLisa	Sunday Feb 21 2010, 09:31 PM Post #1
Lumi B.A. Posts: 1,793 Group: Managers Member #119 Joined: March 24, 2006	I'm curious to see what other writers find hardest and easiest. Which element of writing do you struggle the most with? You can pick up to three options from the list.
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MonaLisa	Sunday Feb 21 2010, 09:46 PM Post #2
Lumi B.A. Posts: 1,793 Group: Managers Member #119 Joined: March 24, 2006	What I struggle the most with is usually descriptions. Writing fanfic for a TV show makes that so much easier - everybody knows what the characters and locations look like, so there's really no need to go into details. (Or at least that's how I justify it to myself!) When writing a particular scene, I will usually start with the dialogue, which tends to pretty much write itself once I get started, and then I make myself go back and add little descriptive touches here and there. I'm also waaayyy too easily distracted. Discipline? What's that? This is why I'll never become a professional writer - I wouldn't stand a chance of getting the work done by a deadline.
	At my favorite site, Second Chances We celebrate all Lumi's glances Whether longing and sweet Or of passion and heat It's the greatest of all romances!


Norma	Sunday Feb 21 2010, 09:52 PM Post #3
Keeper of the Clips Posts: 9,771 Group: Managers Member #1 Joined: November 22, 2005 Lucas & Sami are the definition of true love.	Same for me pretty much. I used to be much better at sitting down and writing than I've been in the past couple of years. I'm hopeful that will start to change now that I have a bit more free time in the evenings. Every time I try right now, it's a struggle. I look back at some of my inprogress fanfics like Gift of Serenity and Une Fois Dans Une Vie and I wonder how on earth I managed to write them so easily. Descriptive writing is a challenge for me, but I'm working on it.
	"Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors." ~ Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory "The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause" ~ Baltasar Gracian


Lumi_fan	Sunday Feb 21 2010, 10:54 PM Post #4
Lumi Sophmore Posts: 164 Group: All Access Lumi Member #641 Joined: December 4, 2006	Um, considering all of my unfished stories I'm gonna go with finishing...Does anyone remember Partners In Crime? I think I might want to start that one up again...



Medea	Monday Feb 22 2010, 08:10 AM Post #5
Resident Troglodyte Posts: 4,392 Group: Managers Member #731 Joined: March 17, 2007	Was I supposed to be doing all those things??? And does it count as "hard" if I just flat out don't do it? Editing. I hate editing. I know my fics would be better if I would do it properly, but I don't. Sometimes what I do when I finish a chapter doesn't even rise to the level of proofreading. Yes, I look over what I've written and make minor changes to get myself back into the flow of a chapter I've left off on, but when the chapter is ready to be posted I barely skim it before it shows up here. And evoking emotion. I've been told repeatedly that my characters are too cerebral, self-aware, and flat... and that I'm not even sure how to fix, whereas at least I know how to edit if I weren't too lazy to do it.



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