What is your most embarrassing moment as a writer?

[JoshRaed]

I had a side character contradict her own words immediately, had a character shush someone when they weren’t in the scene and everyone was looking for them, and I had a character collect heroes in a giant bag to drag towards the villain, unironically.

[Leyelle]

Sending something through to a magazine/publishing it on tapas only to find that has huge typos i missed in it

[llobucervallince]

hold on I'm getting there

[SirCoockie]

Avoiding certain tropes just to get the same ones later on.

[igneriss]

Back when I was a teen and had a lot of confidence in my writing but no skills to back it up, I posted a short story on a magazine's forum for others to read. I got an encouraging comment from one person, but they also included a critique. Mind you, a constructive critique, from what I remember.
And I argued with them because I thought everything I do is 100% correct
I- I try to not think about it after all those years, but sometimes memories of that conversation floods back

[2DLenzy]

This friggin series. I swear I'm gonna delete it one of these days, it's SO dumb and cringe, but I was hyper at the time and a bit out of my mind! Had to make something to expel all that "creativity" XD

Plz don't sub. It's been inactive for almost a year now...

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[Skyy]

I was writing a chapter using experiences from my life and I realised or forgot an entire year of my life so I just blended that year with a year I did remember

[king-goldfish]

I have something out to beta readers right now that several of them have already pointed out contains this section:

“I wasn’t this big when I was a child,” Arkadij said patiently. “I couldn’t wait until I got big to start making money. Besides, this was more fun.”

And then a few pages later, this section:

Arkadij looked embarrassed, his face reddening, though his smile didn’t drop. “I’ve been this size since I was still a kid, really. When you’re big, especially if you’re a big kid, everyone wants to fight you. I got tired of walking out with a nosebleed every time I walked into a public house.”

Not the worst, but the most recent thing I've been embarrassed about.

Historically, the most embarrassing things I've ever written have had to do with sex scenes, so I can't really post that on the forums. But I have a contrarian personality; I feel a knee-jerk urge to subvert common tropes, but some tropes and common scene beats exist for a reason. So I would write sex scenes but reject the idea of making them erotic, and in my inability to conform to the usual physical and emotional beats of such scenes, I would just write really gross, unromantic, strangely clinical stuff. I really cringe just thinking about it. Subverting expectations is not always a good thing, people!

[vapidink]

The entirety of my fanfic writing years, lol. But that's only embarrassing now that I can see how terrible my writing was back then.

[Cucito]

English isn't my first language so when I wrote my first webcomic everyone in my class was pointing out every grammatical error. It got so bad my English teacher had me come in after class for some extra lessons. Didn't do me much good cause I'm still not good at proper grammar

[caffeinatsun]

For me it's anything revolving around self-promotion I have so much shame about doing things the right/wrong way as I stumble my way through trying to figure it out. I get really in my head about it. A close second is when my developmental editor pulls out a logical inconsistency I totally missed, or points out that I'm missing a critical 'not' in things like 'he was not excited about x'... I can't count how much confusion I've caused that poor woman by not proofreading closely enough.

[Lensing]

Same and even after 38 years my brother still laughs about it

[JokesterComics]

When I accidentally wrote one of my characters names as their original name, not the one they have now

[Emalie]

Oh English!!! I've made several mistakes and sometimes I'd like to just disappear from the face of the earth, but there have been people who have given me a lot of advice here, in fact in the last few weeks I've used some techniques that have helped me a lot to improve with the language.

[NickRowler]

I’m dyslexic, so the constant spelling and grammatical errors that have gone unnoticed. I have been getting better at spotting them.

[One100]

I began taking my writing seriously in grade nine, which was smart on my part so I could grow as a writer, but I would write multiple pages per day with illustration in my binder, which I accidentally leave open sometimes. Occasionally I'd notice people looking at my writing thinking I was a mad man, since they assume I'd written all that as notes. I'm the type of person to hate people looking at my art, so with my writing alongside illustrations it was a whole new level of shame/ embarrassment. But what was I supposed to do? Keep my thoughts in my head until I go home or can go on my phone? Nah. No way.

[MelancholicOtaku]

Anytime I have typos lol