I love dialogs and I see myself as a dialog writer more than a settings writer.
I'm not good at settings and describing backgrounds.
I'm just happy that I have a talent artist @nathanKmcwilliams understanding me.
And now I even have a concept artist @Chita helping out with my Bunneh story.
Fight scenes! Can't believe I forgot about that, haha. I've always had trouble with fight scenes. It's hard to come up with anything more interesting than "Character x attacked! Character y dodged!" and so forth.
I'll have to second jobs/mindsets completely away from mine. I'll take weeks and crack my noggin figuring out a believable romance, but I'll get there, the problem is just editing it. But if I have to write someone that's STEM-minded or extremely calculating and have to show that at all times? Goodness. Even my close relatives that work with those areas are still on the more creative side of tinkering and discovering... I can't wrap my head around people that would be entirely uninterested in all that.
I suppose this is cheating but... If I don't like it and I find it too difficult to write... I don't.
There are, of course, exceptions of things that you do have to have in a story such as dialogue and I struggle a bit with description so I work on it. But specific genres? Nope.
If a paycheck depends on it, I'll put every effort into it and do my best hoping that it passes.
I'm not in school so if someone gives me a "prompt" that I don't like I send them that John Travolta hands spread "WTH" gif and blissfully go ahead with my day.
I'm a grown adult. If I don't like or don't want to do something and I don't have to... I don't.
Now, I can understand people saying I should try, and I have, in the past given a few different things a whirl, but, I tend to write what I like and if I'm not into bodice ripping sinking fangs into long white throbbing throats movies, books or tv, so I'm not going to write it.
Unless there's a paycheck involved.
Trust me, no one is going to come to your house and cut your hands off because you refuse to write what you don't want to or find difficult.
Do what you do the best. Pour everything into it. Challenge yourself to grow, of course but don't feel pressured by others that you HAVE to do anything.
I know a lot of people will disagree with what I said, but if you're heart's not in it you won't like what you're doing and when you don't like what you're doing... it shows.
For me it's using situations and language that feels authentic and fun--but isn't hella cliche. Romance cliche's in dialogue are like...all kind of terrible, real cringe, and just so saturated in all our music and movies and books, that trying to find the right words is rough. Like my instinct is to say things like "you are my everything" like everyone else does, but damn that's so cliche at this point, my readers would be able to recite the entire chapter without me writing it. So, I have to step back and say "how can I rephrase it to be something that my readers maybe haven't seen too many times before?" To keep the romance interesting (and mostly interesting for me, because in the end I'm the person I'm writing for--and I'm hella picky about my romance)
Dialogue. Character's way of talking and thinking and how they use their words in certain situation does reflect their personality. To write a dialogue that show's their personality is tough.
Editing. I'm okay with writing, but to edit or polish a sentence to make it better? I'm completely mediocre in that area.
Dialogue between three or more people. Oh gosh I can't keep track of them all. If they all have the same pronouns on top of that? OH NO.
I love that answer.
When I do art, music, writing etc I differ between training and performance.
In the training I try out new things, things that are out of the comfort zone etc
when I´m creative then I just do what I´m good at.
I don´t see it as cheating at all, I think it is a point an artist comes to.
I also learned another thing during the years, when I can´t do it and don´t
want to learn it or don´t have the time to learn it, I pay someone to do it.
I do that with dialogues. I write the plot and pay someone to write the
dialogue and I tell them what I want in it
Dialoge between characters, having a coherent plot, fight scenes, and the romance between two of my characters.
Sad moments are the heaviest for me and usually the ones that take the longest.
It's not that I find them dificult, is that with my writing style I tend to interpret and channel a lot of my characters emotions in me... So when a character fights and gets excited or ready to smash something, I usually feel a lot of energy. And when a character is just having a good time I find myself smilling alongside them... Hence why I prefer to write the more slice-of-lifeish or romatic scenes.
The opposite is also true, every time a character cries, sobs or tears up in the story, every time they curse their own weakness or lament their losses, you bet I did so to at least 2 or 3 times alongisde them, as I wrote, and then edited, and then edited again... and like, i've re-read every chapter five or so times now, and some of those scenes still get me.
I actually had a many writing sessions end because I needed to give my eyes a break. The worst one so far was when I wrote Azreth's background... And I dread some of the scenes I have planned for later.
But still.. I would never EVER wish for me not to write like this.
Actions. I planned to write a mafia & underground fighting, but I'm suck at describing them.. so T.T
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