Demeter
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Post by Demeter on Jun 13, 2011 17:32:20 GMT -8
I keep on idea hopping. First, I want to write a story about x, then I change it to y, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2011 23:26:10 GMT -8
#1 - I have a really hard time starting the stories. I know how I want them to start, I know what is going to happen at the beginning, but I just can't start the darn things. I can't find the right words to hook someone. #2 - I can't make bad guys. I've got the whole man vs. nature and man vs. himself thing down, but when I try to make an actual Big Bad, I can't do it. I have a hard time seeing things from an evil person's perspective. Is that odd? No, don't worry, it's not odd. I would give you a couple tips, but those will probably come up as obvious. XD Such as don't make them the embodiment of evil or whatever...
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Pripyat Rarity
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Post by Pripyat Rarity on Jul 3, 2011 5:07:59 GMT -8
I'm good at imagining scenarios in my head involving characters, but find it difficult to put said scenarios down in writing. That really annoys me, cuz I often come up with fantastic plot points, but they end up in RPs rather than in my creative writing. Recently, I've been compromising on that by putting the idea in the RP, then using the RP to write the story. Somehow, it works. I guess I'm just a weird writer.
Another minor issue is that I somehow can never write any cheerful poems. My poems are always on dark, depressing subjects; whenever I try to write about something upbeat, I get writer's block. -.-
Thirdly, fanfic and me don't really mesh that well. I have written some, but not for the fandoms that I'd really love to do some for; example, Harry Potter or LOTR. I have a complete mental block when it comes to fanfic on those fandoms, yet somehow I manage to write a couple of Streetfighter fanfic pieces. True, one is unfinished, but I know that I'll eventually get round to writing the second part... XD
Which leads me to the final issue; finishing stories. I loathe writing final chapters as the pressure is on to tie up all the loose ends. I wrote a story based on the Whitechapel Jack The Ripper murders; it went fairly well, with an OC of mine and an OC of a friend fitting in nicely among the established real life characters, but it took me about three months to get round to the last chapter. In the end, I was able to write it up but I'm not so sure it's as good as the other chapters and it's a hell of a lot shorter. Argh... if only I could write as good ending chapters as other people.
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Post by annabellamy on Jul 4, 2011 4:15:37 GMT -8
I'm very annoyed by how many times my characters sigh, and how many 'what if' scenarios there are.
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shiko
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Post by shiko on Jul 4, 2011 8:07:06 GMT -8
I'm very annoyed by how many times my characters sigh, and how many 'what if' scenarios there are. I'm afraid that my characters will end up being not the way I wanted them to and also I still have to find a name for the school!
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Post by Kaza999 on Jul 4, 2011 8:26:53 GMT -8
-I have some serious problems writing character's histories. I always do that last and very vaguely. -I am terrible about research. I really need to research more. -I always think of really cool scenes near the middle or the end of Flare (the comic I'm planning), but I never really think of ways to get there.
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Post by annabellamy on Jul 4, 2011 8:37:59 GMT -8
I'm very annoyed by how many times my characters sigh, and how many 'what if' scenarios there are. I'm afraid that my characters will end up being not the way I wanted them to and also I still have to find a name for the school!Depending on what type of school it is, I could help with that.
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yaelxyz
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Post by yaelxyz on Aug 9, 2011 13:20:39 GMT -8
Whenever I think of a female character I'm creating, I almost ALWAYS imagine her face as mine. And I can't really shake that feeling and give the character a different appearance. And I have a really hard time coming up with plot points and developing a plot. Darn.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2011 13:47:29 GMT -8
I have trouble starting and then finishing anything. I always doubt myself and end up erasing everything. This is true for me as well. Writer's block keeps attacking me nearly every time I work on a story. Another problem I have is thinking up complex plots. This isn't a problem for short stories, but as someone who would like to write a novel, I need a plot that won't be easily resolved in just a few hundred or thousand words. My stories also suffer from fast pacing and tend to be rushed towards the end. And then there's my stories' sharing certain subject matter. I have Asperger's Syndrome, so I have a propensity for obsessing over a narrow amount of topics (e.g. dinosaurs and ancient Egypt or some other historical African culture), and both my writings and drawings reflect this. This wouldn't bother me so much if I was writing only for my own enjoyment, but I really want to put my stuff out there for other people to read, and I worry that they'll get sick of my special interests and write me off as a one-trick pony.
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Post by Chaotic Neutral on Aug 22, 2011 15:07:42 GMT -8
I can't stand watching people be stupid. Some scenes or series as a whole are actually painful for me to watch due to how overly stupid any or all of the characters act or the stunts they pull are. So in my works, I created a character to be the voice of reason and limit, prevent, or quickly end these instances of raging stupidity. The problem? Even in my own head, no one listens to the voice of reason. And said voice of reason then gets so ticked over being ignored all the time that he/she ends up drunk, homicidal, or becoming jaded and turning into a deadpan snarker. EVERY. TIME.
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Pripyat Rarity
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Post by Pripyat Rarity on Aug 31, 2011 2:53:24 GMT -8
How many times can you use the word "said" in a story? I don't want to write a story with no use of "said" at all, cuz allergy to "said" irritates me, but there's got to be a happy medium, surely?
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Post by Chaotic Neutral on Sept 4, 2011 10:06:21 GMT -8
^There are a number of different ways of saying said. Instead of simply saying that someone is talking, you can describe how they're talking or what they're doing when they're talking. Yell, whisper, hiss, laugh, mock, maybe even mention what body language they're displaying as they talk.
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apatheticwhim
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Post by apatheticwhim on Sept 4, 2011 13:03:56 GMT -8
I consider myself good at imagining a story, but I suck at writing the actual prose, and when I try to write the prose, I get a nigh-unbearable case of writers' block. I also write too many crazy-pervert characters, and I also overuse the whole person who wants to forget about his past thing. Also, I can't seem to take off my yuri goggles. Meaning, I can't write a two-girl friendship without one of them having feelings for the other. I can't seem to make a character that isn't in any way based on myself. In other words, I can't keep my personal fantasies out of my stories-- or story concepts, in my case.
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Wham Bam I Am! Jam
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Post by Wham Bam I Am! Jam on Sept 9, 2011 7:08:08 GMT -8
I can't write a lesbian relationship without it coming off as awkward. I have this one character who...came to me as a lesbian and then I wrote her interacting with a male character and she transitioned into bisexual instead. At least, she apparently had good chemistry with the guy she was talking to, despite the fact that she was originally gay and he's a celibate priest in training.
It doesn't help that she's in a story where the majority of the main cast are male -_-
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shiko
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Post by shiko on Sept 9, 2011 11:19:34 GMT -8
I'll want to write something, write it then lose interst, after a week. This happens all the time! >.<
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Post by KeyOfTheTwilight on Sept 22, 2011 1:29:04 GMT -8
-I tend to not continue a story I made before and start a new one. -I'm not that original. -I don't even know how to start off an original story and just do fanfictions only. >.<
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Mononobe Witch
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Post by Mononobe Witch on Oct 9, 2011 16:16:43 GMT -8
-Sometime I just don't know how to describe something.
-That I sometimes don't know what a certain thing is called and end up searching on the internet for it and it takes forever.
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Tigeranne
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Post by Tigeranne on Nov 1, 2011 6:29:58 GMT -8
I suck at writing plots. Pure and simple, I can't write plots worth crap. They are usually either: -Boring -Very contrived -Too rambling and losely defined -Full of holes you can drive a bus through -Too slow moving
Sometimes I worry about keeping the prose in balance, on the sliding scale of purple vs beige. I tend to describe everything using at least two words. An abandoned house can't just be "derelict", it has to be "dilapidated and crumbling". Preferrably, it would be "eerie, dilapidated and crumbling."
I also like fusing sentences together with "and"s and "but"s.
This may sound weird, but I often worry that people will feel there is too little actual violence in my stories for them to be realistic. On the other hand, I know that some of the stuff I write is rather morbid, and worry that people will think I'm slightly psycho who can think up things like that. Sure, there are freak accidents, dreadful fictional diseases, deaths and maimings due to characters' personality flaws, a whole unintentional killing spree and even an actual serial murderer (historical case in-universe). Still, I feel I should perhaps toss in some drug abuse, organized crime and domestic violence as well, because people would expect it to be there. None of my main characters have got physically abusive parents. In the cases where the family is "bad", the harm they inflict on the children is of the mental and emotinal kind, and it's usually not intentional.
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shiko
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Post by shiko on Nov 6, 2011 10:14:34 GMT -8
I can't bring myself to finish writing my book or put some real hours into working with it.
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TrippedUp
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Post by TrippedUp on Nov 6, 2011 10:29:47 GMT -8
I can't write dialogue for shit, my writing voice sounds so stiff, and my sentence structure is horrible.
I'm trying to rewrite my old fanfic form like two years ago and I might be worse. Oh, and another peeve? I can't keep continuity. I'm better suited for essays cause I can write off the cuff, but when it comes to a single piece of work that lasts a while, I just can't. After this, I'll stick to one shots. -___-
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Wham Bam I Am! Jam
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Post by Wham Bam I Am! Jam on Nov 6, 2011 12:01:48 GMT -8
I can't bring myself to finish writing my book or put some real hours into working with it. I sometimes feel like that. When I do, I'm like, "Bitch, you're four chapters in; you can only turn back at the first chapter! Now get a fucking move one!"
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shiko
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Post by shiko on Nov 6, 2011 12:24:34 GMT -8
I can't bring myself to finish writing my book or put some real hours into working with it. I sometimes feel like that. When I do, I'm like, "Bitch, you're four chapters in; you can only turn back at the first chapter! Now get a fucking move one!"
I'm not even done with the first chapter ._. uhhhhggggggg D:<
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Post by Philophobia on Nov 6, 2011 14:14:34 GMT -8
1. Way too many pop culture references 2. Too many careless plotholes 3. Too many filler scenes - I think I've had seven or more dream sequences that probably shouldn't have been in there 4. Super long haitus breaks - Sometimes a year or longer 5. Never finishing something, then going to something else 6. Logic doesn't seem to exist in my realm. - In a few, characters that can obviously run for help don't. 7. Things are either over explained, or not enough (or at all) - A reoccuring thing in my older work was that something always haunted the protagonist, even if the story had nothing to do with the last or was set in an alternate universe (especially a certain cross over). And a handful of deaths with paranormal explanation are never explained at all. 8. Use of real life people - In my old work, before I created fictional characters; I spliced in people from my life into stories, which was pretty weird and disturbing; having friends being drowned and brutally murdered.
And I'm not sure if it's me or what, but all my characters sound the same.
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Spacekat
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Post by Spacekat on Nov 7, 2011 11:01:36 GMT -8
I can't come up with tiles to save my life. Everything that I am currently working on has no goddamn title.
I can handle worldbuilding pretty well. Creating and developing characters is all fun and games and I love doing it. Tying everything up with a nice, coherent and non-vague plot? FAIL. I've been trying to work out what the hell is actually going on in one story for so long it's not even funny anymore.
The fact that most of my main characters are male. Also, a lot of them are fragile speedsters.
And I just have a hard time actually getting the stuff from my head and writing it down. I just doubt myself too much and end up staring at a blank page wondering what the fuck am I supposed to do.
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shiko
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Post by shiko on Nov 10, 2011 7:52:50 GMT -8
I think I'm not being original with my plot or characters, you've got the flaming gay guy, the stoic, the noob, the jerkass, the innocent one, the one who's frustrated sexually. It's been done a million times but I also feel that I'm being orignal also but at the same time I feeling like I'm rewriting book thats been already like a fanfiction. >~<
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Post by Mina Murray on Nov 10, 2011 8:13:12 GMT -8
I find that I tend to go into discriptions far far to much, especially if I'm giving a discription of surroundings. Particuarly streets, rooms, and natural scenes. I also feel like I suck at dialog. Because I feel like "No one would say it like that!" or "They didn't talk like that at that time period" Also I feel like I either remind the audience who's speaking to much or to little sometimes.
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Post by Story Keeper on Nov 10, 2011 17:47:28 GMT -8
I nearly always come up with a good story idea, then realise it portrays a boring cast of characters and a message that's too extreme for who I would write for.
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Wham Bam I Am! Jam
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Post by Wham Bam I Am! Jam on Nov 10, 2011 22:54:44 GMT -8
This isn't so much about the story telling side but I keep making stupid annoying typos that slip through my sieve of proof-reading.
It's just so annoying.
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shiko
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Post by shiko on Nov 11, 2011 7:53:38 GMT -8
This isn't so much about the story telling side but I keep making stupid annoying typos that slip through my sieve of proof-reading. It's just so annoying.
THIS. SO. MUCH! THE STORIES I HAVE FROM THIS PROMBLEM UGH... DX
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