Favorite and Least Favorite Aspect of Writing

[MariMontoya]

Favorite: At any part of the day I am just thinking about my story and a scene comes to mind and it's such a good scene and I get all excited, but they always come at the worst moment like when I'm in a four hour lab lol. But afterwards when I write it down I'm like "Wow, amazing did I actually write that?"

Least Favorite: When you realize you can't add that scene anymore to your story...lol that ties with not being able to get one scene down right no matter how many times you rewrite it.

[375]

My favorite: I love creating worlds and making them a Dystonia or even a false Utopia. But it isnt like hyper fantasy worlds, its worlds that are against the MC and make them struggle in more than one way. Also I really enjoy it when stories honestly head south instead of north like I want them too. Its like Ah...I see. So you have a mind of your own then.

My least favorite: When my brain gets fried XD Or when my attention span on a story is so short I forget about it the next day.

[nekhcore]

Favorite: having written

Least favorite: writing

[Penni]

@x4ever Developing characters is really awesome! I know how you feel about the plot, you get on a roll and then realize you're rolling too fast!

@MariMontoya I think about scenes all the time too! But then it's the challenge of, "how to do I get to that awesome scene in my mind?"

@375 I hate the brain frying feeling too! You wanna write so bad but your brain just won't cooperate. It can be interesting to see your plot take a different direction that what you planned. I like to think of that as your story really growing on it's own

@nycanth I feel you

[onyefrankie]

Favorite: Characters. I love characters and building them and just agh! They're my favorite part of stories like the plot could be boring as all hell but if I love the characters I'm here to stay.

Least: Editing.

[mrtoontastic]

Favorite: Witty dialogue, coming up with the atmosphere and the world even when I'm not writing my draft, and the sense of adventure, whimsy, and wonder, and feeling the emotion from the stories as I write them.

Least Favorite: When you get writers' block and you can't fully write said ideas even though you're still imagining them.

[minerrale]

Favorite : finally getting all those words out of my head. They plague me all day asking to get out, and arranging them in sentences and paragraphs feel really good.

Least favorite : not being able to find how to say what I want to say.

[375]

Its so terrible! And it happens during the times when I need to update or turn in my creating writing thesis D: And haha it really is growing. Right now Im growing a spearmint plant that cant touch the sun or else it'll burn like last time. But its trying to touch it and so its growing off to the side and I just look at it and go, "This is my story isnt it?" XD

[Leon]

Favourite: Use my imagination to create rich and elaborate worlds, characters and stories that I enjoy and getting to that part I thought months ago.

Least favourite: Being blocked, not knowing how to continue the sotry or the fear of the possibility of never finishing it.

[KrispyKremeBits]

Favorite: Worldbuilding and character interactions
Least Favorite: Actually writing in general

[JenniferBourne]

Lynda Barry's comic says it better than I could.

Favorite part- when it's like I'm a kid playing.
Least favorite part- when the Two Questions butt in...

Lynda Barry's "Two Questions"

[Penni]

@onyefrankie Oh editing I know I'm going to find grammar errors and typos

@mrtoontastic I love all those feelings too It's the best high

@minerrale Yes! not being able to word properly is so frustrating!

@Leon the idea that you'll never finish is so real! Especially when you dedicate so much time and energy to it and you get stuck!

@CremeChronicles I can understand the actual writing part being the least favorite part. For me there is some sanctification seeing the words come to life before me.

@JenniferBourne That comic says it all! Thank you

[LCT_m_a_d]

I love the research part of writing the story.

The re-writing part when you have to throw away good for better is the least enjoyable.

[ratscout]

Favorite: When I make a theme for a story and make specific moments in that story follow a theme on purpose, but then another part of the story that I didn't mean to make go with the theme goes with it anyway and then I think to myself "my god... I'm accidentally brilliant!" XD I also just love when I stumble upon that perfect idea that I want to make into a story and when I first get to put that idea to paper. Character building is also a blast, too while world building has always been less important to me.

Least favorite: When I lose steam on a long-form story because I'm so used to writing short and simple short stories.

[fighterxaos]

Favorite, coming up with the scenarios and major moments. Least favorite coming up with the details of the world and the moments leading up to the major moments. In a way that makes sense at least. I forget some of my own plot elements TOO MANY times.

[Penni]

@vicar_comic It can be hard to change scenes you really had your heart set on

@ratscout of all the ways you could be brilliant, being accidentally brilliant probably feels the best

@fighterxaos I tend to forget things too so I keep a notebook to write everything down in it when I think about them.

[xanedis]

Wahahaha. I think we're opposites, then. I like editing the most, and my weakness is... writing that first draft. Guh. But that's just the literal "writing" part.

My favourite part of writing(as a whole) is doing all the puzzle work to figure out how the plot should go, and seeing the pieces finally click together in a satisfying way. When a story that consists of multiple pieces becomes a coherent whole, you get this immensely rewarding feeling. It's quite awesome to see your plot become the thread it should be - instead of a haphazard collection of events.

And my least favourite part of writing as a whole is... being unable to write as often as I want..

[spooktacularprize]

Coming from a comic writer who has also written stories, my favorite part is coming up with an idea that really works for me -- maybe just a basic concept or something similar; just an idea that really inspires me and makes me think and resonates with me. This also includes tying up and connecting events in a story, particularly when these events work better with previous events that I had at first expect.

My least favorite would be getting stuck. Trying to tie two events together and not being able to get past that mental block; lacking inspiration and being unable to motivate myself to get beyond that.

[Penni]

@xanedis I am beginning to like editing, it gives me a chance to reexamine my work and look at how I could improve it

@spooktacularprize I can completely understand trying to motivate yourself past mental blocks!

[monotone_ink]

Favourite Aspect of Writing
Writing the main frame, especially the detailed ending, and imagining how awesome it all is.

Least Favourite Aspect of Writing
Filling in the rest and struggling to keep facts and plot details consistent.

This is especially true when it comes to writing mystery stories - for those that are doing so, I salute to you.