What's Your Writing Flaw?

[darryljoll14]

One of my biggest writing flaws in writing is advancing the plot. I pour way too much on chapter 1 and it left me on a massive writer's block.

[JaveCraze]

I hate keeping scenes up because whenever I see them a day or an hour later it feels cringeworthy to me, so I delete it or edit it.. I don't really get a lot of stories done because of this. I guess I'm also not that good at writing more grounded stories, too.

[Mallory]

I am WAAY too verbose on the sentence level (and less so on a paragraph level). Like, I don't think it's terrible per se, but my scenes go on for just a little too long with just a little too much detail. I think I can definitely shrink my writing to about 60-70% of its current length and keep the same content (character/world-building and plot) in a much more succinct package.

[Hipiticus]

i can't write emotional scenes

[Emalie]

Being repetitive has happened to me a lot and the other thing is that sometimes I overlook important details of a certain scene.

[AKG]

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[hakei]

Being unclear: I've gotten this feedback since my school essay writing days but somethings that I think are clear as day are apparently unclear from the reader's POV.

Talking scenes drag on in one stationary scenery: I've been trying to be better about this ever since I watched a youtube video addressing this sort of writing issue but sometimes when I'm pressed for time and/or are tired, I do fall back to it.

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

I suspect it may be a flaw of mine that I love to write emotional scenes - maybe too many.

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

Too many sentences (in the draft at least) are long, complex monsters that need to be cut down to size.

[thepenmonster]

What’s Your Writing Flaw?

My scripts are so fire the smoke detector keeps going off and waking everyone up.

[Illo]

For mine I think is the flow of a story and how good the reader can understand!
If I could draw I would surely do comics because I like reading them and I like the story-telling of comics but since I'm untalented I ended up writing light-novels

Sometimes I feel like I can't deliver a scene I imagine in my head the way I want and probably ruin the scene and for other times I don't know how to smoothly change the scene, I have been writing for a year now and I can tell my skill has greatly improved from the start but I can still see the flaws and always trying to get better

[Hipiticus]

let's trade half our flaws then

[NickRowler]

I have dyslexia, so maybe common grammar errors that I sometimes don’t spot. My professors also told me my writing was too “casual”, which might not be too much of a problem if I am writing dialogue.

For plotting, I got somewhat inspired by the film Vertigo. So I do sort of having these stories that sort of make your head spin. I had a writing professor say that some countries teach to write research papers like a spiral where you only learn what the point is at the end. So maybe my flaw is liking this style of writing.

[powerplantanimations]

I'm just unable to write novels in general :T

I wanna get into novel writing but like... I dunno if I'll ever be able to pull it off.

[Fish_Face46]

I cannot for the life of me, describe anything or I overdo sentences with extra words I know I stopped writing for a couple of years but when I came back to it I realized that my writing is prose like, no descriptions of where my characters are or even what they look like. And then when I go back and read it Im like UHHHH I don't think the reader will read your mind and know that the character is supposed to be sitting down with a pen between his fingers in an office lmao.

[Kuma]

I'm in love with world building and at times I fear I go into world building tangents too often and might hurt the flow of the story.

I also get too wordy at times, with over complicated descriptions

[IndigoShirtProd]

I admit, I have no flaws.

Just kidding. I think for me it's comedy. In conversation I think pretty humorous, but it's pretty difficult for me to write comedic interactions and scenes. Also, I don't write enough speaker tags so sometimes it's hard to track of who's speaking when.

[Illo]

You just have to start and you will find your grip, don't worry I started like that too, just be determined! <3

[VersusVII]

I'm not a writer but my boyfriend and other people pointed out that I spend too much time explaining the context or the background of an event before telling the actual fact. For example, when I hear a rumor at work instead of telling "I heard this two people are dating" I start "oh, this guy that works in that department, the blond one who taught me to do that, is now dating that girl who went out with the boss of that other department".

I don't know if my father influenced me (he is even worse than me in this) or if it's something I started to do after a teacher pointed out I explained things pretending I was talking to someone that already knew them, cutting all the details.

[darryljoll14]

Another thing one of the major flaws is doing first person pov writing. It was hard for me because of the repeating "I". As of right now, I looked up Chuck Palahnuik about writing and he talked about "Submerging the I" where you have to use less "I's" and tried to write first person without using too many "I's" by focusing on the MC's surroundings/people around them.