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Apr 2018

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.

Trying to fill that space between the awesome scenes in your mind can be the most frustrating part for me! Though sometimes it leads to a scene developing better than you thought!

I used to have that same problem, but it mitigated over the years by practice. Now I'm feeling relatively confident in writing those middle parts. You just have to make sure that your every paragraph feels like they're tightly connected to the main story, instead of having some just loosely hanging on to the general story structure.

That said, I speak from the viewpoint of an outliner(not a full-blown one, I tend to discovery write my characters and those "middle parts" you mentioned). It might be that your writing method is a bit different, but the same principle from the first sentence applies - just write. You'll get better. If you feel up to it, I would recommend reading about writing(but if that puts you down, just write), however, even with all that knowledge that you could gather, you'd still have to learn to put it into practice. And I can't stress enough how much a good night's sleep will help you to write better on the next day...

sighs Sorry. I got started on a rant. Just keep in mind that writing is a holistic art - a lot of things influence your performance. XD

I agree with the "good night's sleep" part. Sleeping is extremely important when writing. Not only are you better focused when you're really awake, but dreaming helps your brain process the informations of the day (including your story) and piecing it together to make sense. That's the main purpose of dreaming, in fact. And it helps a lot with finding plotholes and filling them up!

Ah, no, that's not what I meant ^^" all of this is done by your subconscious while you sleep, you don't have to remember your dreams for this!
Well it's better if you do, mine gave me the basis of Abby's Hope AND of the other book that it talks about :smiley: but it's not necessary at all for this process.
It's basically your brain working while you're looking away

I might not have been very clear either ^^" sorry, I'm still not very comfortable with english, especially when I'm talking to people and not writing a story since the style is not the same

No worries! I appauld anyone who takes on English as another language. It's difficult (especially when someone doesn't read get you said right :laughing:)

I like that I can just pour my imagination to my writings when I'm unable to draw it.

But what I hate is that I need to go back and fort to a couple of dictionaries just to find the 'right' words. Even if I do, my tenses is all over the place, so it's frustrating at times. Plus, if the things I searched on Google for reference doesn't exist or simply lacking, that's gonna put me on edge at times.

I also someone that have low motivation, so when my stories doesn't go well, I usually will lose my interest at that moment until I'm able to go back up again. Somehow it feels pathetic :stuck_out_tongue: .

But hey, I still love to do it.

Thesaurus.com is becoming a close friend of mine :laughing:

It can be hard to keepmotivation high! It takes a lot of write well and it can be exhausting! Sometimes you just gotta take a break.

I usually use the online Macmillan thesaurus though. XD

And if I were to take a break... I take a break for a long, long time...

Favorite: Actually getting to write, period. I often don't have the time and when that happens, it feels like all of the words I'm aching to get out are swollen up inside my body cavity. It's a real source of physical discomfort. (Same for not being able to draw something then I have the NEED as I will call it)

Least Favorite: Marketing, social media, etc..basically, remembering to inform everybody that I made something so they actually can go look at it. Half the time I don't do this and no one ever sees it, even if I managed to make something really awesome that I initially had big plans for. After the deed, I'm often so tired or busy that I move right on to the next task.

I find marketing to be a drag but I'm basically made up of awkwardness so promoting myself is so weird.

9 days later

Favorite: Writing the scene, putting a lot of emotion into the characters and my most favorite. Writing the villains/bad guys scenes because even though my villians are more "Chaotic Neutral" It's more fun to write their scenes because you have more freedom because they're not goodie good guys and they have to be limited.

Least Favorite: Editing. Reason why because when you come back with fresh eyes and see you need to change or add stuff to the story is really difficult. It is for me because sometimes I need to add stuff to make it smooth or go into the next scene better or just fix those mistakes and till this day. Some of those little mistakes still sneaks by me after editing it a lot.

2 months later

Favorite part: Editing, I get to make my writing clear and cut out the redundancy.

Least favorite part: Editing, I often have passive voice problems that I find hard to rephrase.

I like drafting the best! You can just let your ideas flow, not caring whether its good or bad, boring or exciting... You can just sit there and let your mind take you wherever it wants to go. Its amazing what you can think up without restricting yourself, without shackling your hands with the weight of unattainable self-expectations.

Then there's editing... Noticing all the plot holes and grammatical errors... Ugh!

:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Favorite: Adding Notes! I really love adding in the different parts to highlight dialogue, chapter changes, the little notes, all of it! Especially the notes -- it really helps to get my creative engine running and get me on a roll with writing scripts. When I do author notes, I have a clear path on where I'm taking the story and if I have to come back to it later, I know exactly where I left off!

Least Favorite: When I have to edit for repeated words. A lot of times, I just write what comes to me in the moment, and usually I can use the "Find and Replace" option in Word. BUT, when it says I can't search because I used the word too many times for it to be pulled up, that's when I have to do it all manually, and if I've done more than 50 pages of script, it's a nightmare XD