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Fanfic/writing/fandom etc... Question(s) of the day
mare:
Tonight's question:
What do you find most difficult when writing? Description, plot, dialogue etc...
RokofAges75:
Thanks for the mentions, Steph and Steph!
As far as what I find most difficult... I used to struggle the most with description and character development, but I've gotten a lot better at those. For someone who doesn't talk a lot in real life, dialogue has always come easily to me - I guess when I'm not talking, I'm listening, so that helps!
I think what I struggle most with nowadays is just staying focused and inspired enough to write and write well. Between collaborations and my own stuff, I've accumulated too many projects, and it's hard to stay inspired on all of them and find the balance needed to write them all. I know what it's like to be so inspired that the story almost writes itself, and so when I'm stuck with a story that just doesn't go that way for me, I get frustrated. If the writing's not flowing as well as I want it to, I tend to give up and try to work on something else, and so I end up jumping around from story to story and not finishing anything. I didn't used to be one of THOSE writers, so it's annoying that now I am! It just takes me forever to finish a story anymore, and it's hard to stay committed to one project for years at a time before allowing myself to move on to the next one.
Sakabelle:
I agree with that, Julie. I love the feeling of being so inspired that I churn out chapters and I get really frustrated when it doesn't happen that I move on to something else. Now I have tons of unfinished projects all of them with multiple chapters (that aren't necessarily the first ones in the story either...ugh)
I have found that dialogue is something that's always come easily to me. Even in my really old stuff, it's not the dialogue that makes me cringe. I feel like what's hardest for me is pacing! I suck at pacing! I've written stories where it's been nothing but a whole bunch of drama, without any build up in between and as a result it came out very rushed. Now, I'm writing not one, but two stories that take place day-by-day and it's sort of a nightmare because I feel like when I write something else my pacing will be way off. After these are done I'm never writing a story day-by-day ever again lol.
RokofAges75:
Pacing is definitely hard! You want to build up to the drama so that the character development is there and it doesn't seem rushed, but you also don't want to take forever to do that. It's hard to find the right balance with some storylines.
Rose:
--- Quote from: mare on June 10, 2012, 03:25:02 PM ---Todays question:
How do you come up with your story titles? Does the title come first or later on as you're writing it?
--- End quote ---
The title has to come first. I'm really anal about that LOL. It's just, if you don't know your title, I feel like you really just don't know your story. It's like when you sometimes see stuff posted here all "Untitled (for now)". It's just ugh lol. Sometimes, a title will just hit me, like inspired. Unfortunately, that's not often. So a lot of the times I'll look at songs (cause I usually have playlists/soundtracks for anything I write), and either use titles or a line from the lyrics. Like "Walked Out Of My Dreams" comes from "Unmistakable", And "Divine Intervention" was inspired by the BSB song of that title, so I just went with giving it the same name LOL. RMTW actually didn't come from that song (Julie I think asked me that when I came up with it), it was just that's exactly what Nick wanted, and one of those rare moments where a title just came as inspired lmao.
So...yeah lol.
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