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Post by Madame Celeste on Dec 9, 2011 19:02:12 GMT -8
It's incredibly easy for me to plan out a story from beginning to end, but when I actually go to write said story, I end up hitting a wall. More often than not, this leaves me second-guessing my original plan and frequently changing it, trying to fix every plothole (real or imagined) that I find, until in the end, nothing actually gets put on paper/Microsoft Word/whatnot. My friends have always said that I'm too self-critical, and to be perfectly honest I have to agree, and it shows when I'm trying to write. Any ideas on how to avoid this?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2012 16:00:16 GMT -8
I notice I tend to do a lot of, She did this. She did that. Is there anyway to overcome that?
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Post by Captain Victoria on Jan 3, 2012 18:44:16 GMT -8
I can come up with characters and plots easily. They play out in my mind like movies. They're very in-depth and some make fantastic stories. But I can't get it all down accurately. :C
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Post by Mikashi on Jan 3, 2012 19:21:46 GMT -8
^I seem to have that problem, too. Descriptions mainly...I just can never seem to find the words for them, I also have a habit of not giving a variety for the whole "sentence" she/he said/asked/answered/responded/etc. It feels like beating a dead horse.
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Post by MeghanJH on Jan 4, 2012 8:34:50 GMT -8
As of late it seems that when I get going really good on a story, I get an idea or inspiration to work on a completely different story. And it seems that inspiration hits me at the worst of times so I have gotten to where I carry around one notebook to write down ideas and another notebook to write one of my stories in.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2012 8:54:47 GMT -8
Yeah, I am so glad my phone has a notes section, I'll type stuff there really quick. Very handy.
My frustrations are many. >.> I've so very many unfinished works, because I get inspiration for something else; and what I was just writing becomes boring almost instantly. I constantly say 'thing/something' and 'that' and other such words instead of finding some other way to describe an object or use another word. I'll look back at old works and in many ways, think they're absolutely amazingly well-written. But when I look at whatever I'm writing currently, it seems awful. Not very descriptive, characters not well-rounded and thought out; other fun stuff.
"I can come up with characters and plots easily. They play out in my mind like movies. They're very in-depth and some make fantastic stories. But I can't get it all down accurately. :C" ^ this, yes, gods of cheese this. EXACTLY like a movie. And yet, yes, it is never the same when I try to put it to paper (or Word).
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Post by shiko on Jan 15, 2012 7:34:23 GMT -8
My word count.
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Post by Lady Phoenix on Jan 15, 2012 18:54:31 GMT -8
- I have such a hard time ending stories. I can usually get a good beginning, but ending them is just a whole other story. Likewise. I usually rush the endings. -Writer's Blocks that take ONE YEAR TO FINISH A CHAPTER.
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Post by Captain Victoria on Jan 16, 2012 14:16:56 GMT -8
Beginnings. I always have a difficult time beginning a story.
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Post by Demeter on Jan 17, 2012 21:09:25 GMT -8
I'm so goddamn slow. Technically, I've been working on a chapter since July. (Lots of writer's block.)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 9:36:17 GMT -8
Never being able to finish a story. I've started probably a dozen of them and can never finish them.
Also actually sitting my ass down to write, I'll admit that I'm a lazy person and I just hope that the story will write itself out for me. And when I'm actually writing, it's as if I can't write it down exactly as I have it in my head. And I think that's why it's so hard for me to sit down and write because when I do nothing comes out the way I want it to.
Descriptions also get me too. I'm more of a dialogue person, not an informative one.
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Post by makoeyes on Jun 11, 2013 11:14:29 GMT -8
Never being able to finish a story. I've started probably a dozen of them and can never finish them.
Also actually sitting my ass down to write, I'll admit that I'm a lazy person and I just hope that the story will write itself out for me. And when I'm actually writing, it's as if I can't write it down exactly as I have it in my head. And I think that's why it's so hard for me to sit down and write because when I do nothing comes out the way I want it to.
Descriptions also get me too. I'm more of a dialogue person, not an informative one. That's the same problem I have. Because of various issues, it's become extremely hard for me lately to just sit down and write, one of them being that nobody in my life seems to give a damn. It's just gotten so hard. I'm a HUGE idea person, it's just gotten really hard for me to actually put it down on Word.
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Post by annoyed on Jun 17, 2013 16:54:36 GMT -8
I often feel my paragraphs and dialogue don't flow very well.
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Post by Lady Phoenix on Jun 19, 2013 9:31:50 GMT -8
I now can't seem to find a way to describe things. It kinda sucks
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Post by EquinoxSolstice92 on Oct 31, 2013 16:40:49 GMT -8
Sentence structures. Grammar. Punctuation misuse. Describing. Sometimes I over describe and I under describe. It's hard to find balance. I think that my first novel is too cliche and I'm worried about that. It's hard to write an original pure romance story nowadays. My plot is too simple sometimes. Never being able to finish a story. I've started probably a dozen of them and can never finish them.
Also actually sitting my ass down to write, I'll admit that I'm a lazy person and I just hope that the story will write itself out for me. And when I'm actually writing, it's as if I can't write it down exactly as I have it in my head. And I think that's why it's so hard for me to sit down and write because when I do nothing comes out the way I want it to.
Descriptions also get me too. I'm more of a dialogue person, not an informative one. I thought that I was the only one who feels the same way. Thank God I'm not alone. It's funny how I can finish poetry but I can't finish even a single short story. It is hard to describe surroundings sometimes.
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