What's the most challenging aspect of your writing?

[itski]

Oooooh. The 'meh' idea sounds like a rough ride. Beta readers are your best friend, for sure!

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[itski]

That's fantastic advice. I never considered that before! I will for sure start trying to do this for my next chapter! Thank you!

[itski]

This post alone was a wild ride!

[skidiggy]

I feel that.

We have a game between my sounding board and myself called "Once More, With Feeling!" The rules are one of us reads the chapter aloud, then the other listens until the story either stops making sense or doesn't feel right. It's the listener's job to say "CUT!" and the reader has to stop where they are. We workshop the bit(s) that don't work, and read it aloud again, "Once More, With Feeling!" You'd be shocked how often that works.

[JoshRaed]

Writing. Getting to that point where i’m doing that.

[itski]

I am in that mode myself! Some days are so much harder than others!

[Liv45]

For me the biggest challenge is to get in the right mood (sad, happy, funny) and if I get in (mostly with the help of music) it`s hard to get out of it again. I just wrote a really sad chapter and after that I needed some time to come back to reality and not feel the sadness so much. Do you have that too sometimes?

[itski]

Not often, but for sure it happens more frequently with sad topics. I don't across it often because I don't write a lot of sad storylines.

[heyroxi]

I'm a UX so organizing is my thing and I can't think at all if I am not looking at my ideation

[heyroxi]

Thank you! Just a tip from my experience—it definitely helps to list out the plot before creating the chapter itself. Of course, everyone has their own preferences. This novel will be like a memento for me, (weird) and I plan to read it once it's finished, since I don't read my chapters after posting them.

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[itski]

That does make sense, I just haven't had time. I joined the AF Tourney a month behind. The next novel I write I do plan to have nutted out in every aspect beforehand. I do read my own work because I always miss something the first thousand times I read it.

[skidiggy]

Hahaha. I feel that.

[Cass]

Trying to make the slow burn not so slow. I don't want to rush it but I don't want them to just be stuck in pining forever.

[itski]

Maybe you need more action happening, so they don't have time to get lost in each-other's eyes as frequently. or an event that keeps them separated for a while, but still thinking of each other.

[Lorian]

My one and only fight scene. I can write emotional struggle but physical one is incredibly hard for me. My novel requires very little of battle scenes, but I dread them like worst nightmare

[itski]

My suggestion here would be:
Think about what is moving, how and where.
eg. His fist flew overhead. A boot appeared from the right and landed in his stomach.

You don't need technical terms. You can just describe the object, movement and location.
Short, simple sentences work best for action and fight scenes. If your sentences are too long, they lose speed and urgency to the reader, as if the character has all the time in the world to dodge out of the way.

[Fatalis_comics]

The most challenging part of writing the plot for my webcomic when I plan out each scene is that I write it out almost like a book, but I have to take into consideration how it would look when I draw it. So, it has to have a good plot but also look good too. Another hard part of writing a webcomic is giving each character a backstory and a significance to the story and making sure each episode contributes to some part of the plot.