Romance. So hard to make it not the corniest thing on earth.

What I usually find hard to write are things I don't have personal experience with—for example, if a character has a job I've never had myself. I can usually get away with a combination of research, reasonable guessing, and a healthy amount of vagueness, but it still feels super awkward most of the time.

Also: speeches. Public speaking is hard enough; why do I have to make my characters do it?

I think the bit of writing I struggle with the most is transitioning between scenes. For some reason I really find it difficult and feel like I end up rambling for ages or cutting a bit too short

Describing magic.

I have a problem with writing three things.

1st. Small Talk
I've never been good with IRL small talk. The most you get from is hi/sup or a "Nice shoes" if we're at a pool. (Yes, that person was not wearing shoes. I was just nervous and decided to go with my best conversation starter. But it worked out in the end because they thought I was just joking.)

2nd. Group conversation.
This was easily the second most frustrating thing I've ever written. And this happens a lot in my story. This one particular scene I had 12 people in one room. There was two groups of 6 and both groups were getting to know each other. 9 bubbly personalities + 2 introverts + a girl with split personalities = HELL.

3rd. Rapping
I'm at a point in my story where the main villain for this arc has the ability to create anything he wants by spelling it out. So in the early stages of his design I wanted to make him a rapper. And I decided to stick with that concept. But now that he's incorporated into the actual story, I realize how difficult it is to be a consistently good rapper.

• Smart characters because I am dumb.
• Scenes that requires emotional intensity because I write really flatly.
• Comedic scenes or jokes.
• Fighting scenes.

I have trouble describing settings or ideas in an interesting way in my narration. Dialogue? Sure, that's easy for me. I'm always imagining my characters talking to one another. But I hardly ever think about where they are, what the place looks like, and if I have any important things to explain about a setting I can't do it too well without sounding like a brochure. Now I could probably tell you where all the characters are in relation to one another, what they're doing, how they're doing it, what's on their mind while doing it, blah blah blah. Anything character-focused is extremely easy for me, but I don't exactly have a vivid picture of what everyone and everything looks like. So I'd say a good 70-80% of my novel is dialogue lol. It's just "This is where they are" then they talk. I'm working on it tho!! It's hard, but I'm working!! Just appeal to the five senses and use the proper words to convey tone and atmosphere.

Also, it's kinda funny, but I have pretty much the same exact problem with my comic as well... Characters are detailed, full of personality, and whatever else they need. I'll draw every single character in a scene no problem. The backgrounds? Either way too simple and doesn't give enough information, or straight up non-existent. Again, a problem I'm working on and I think I'm starting to get a good feel for it now.

So uhhhh, yeah. I know I'm not perfect, but I'm trying my best lol

Sex scenes.

I'm fine with heavy emotional scenes or action scenes or eerie atmospheres but just not sex. It comes out too mechanical and I skip over a lot of stuff lol. Thank god for my betareader!

Dialogue I find its hard to make it flow naturally. Maybe I don't talk enough, so I'm not sure how it should be done (?).

I kind of struggle with two.

1. Descriptions: I think I describe enough to paint the picture but I often worry that I'm not doing enough to describe my characters and scenes but I also don't want the descriptions to sound mechanical. Like the descriptions that say "he was 6'2" with a taper cut half-fade haircut and a sleeve of tattoos on his left arm." I just can't tell sometimes if I do enough.

2. The other is romance. I have characters that in my head, if they were real would be doing the couple thing where they're always half-hugging each other when standing by each other. I can write things like "A grabbed B's favorite X" or "C made D dinner because they were stressed". I can do behavior like that but you can't really write about the tiny touches, the longing stares, etc that IRL couples do around their partner. It's hard.

For me, it's plot. Character dialogue and interactions come so naturally to me, as does imagining them in various scenarios, but pulling those together into a cohesive plot is a struggle.

I find romance to be the most difficult. I usually try to keep it almost entirely out of my writing. I should write some romance short stories to improve myself at it tbh

Romance, don't even start me on kissing/intement scenes. Want something ridiculously difficult, it can be easy for some folk but for me it is so choppy and sometimes it is just ... bleh.

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.

Dialogue is the hardest part for me. Trying to make it feel authentic and flow well is a challenge.

I believe the hardest thing to write is German using cursive.

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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

Dialoge between characters, having a coherent plot, fight scenes, and the romance between two of my characters.

For me, endings... they always get me... and also fight scenes too lol

Made a Dialog challenge for all of you in here struggling with dialogs

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

I would say one of the hardest for me as a sci-fi writer is thinking about all the intricacies of everyday life in an completely alien world and making it believable!