What can't you stand about your own writing ?

I can't stand the fact that

- I have problems with descriptions, some times I get too wordy or I don't give enough description

-I some times start a fic then won't finish it or work on it for an ungodly amount of time and all the ' Please update' and " Please Post the Rest' only irritate the hell out of me

-My grammar sucks and I know it. My Dyslexia can be mostly blamed for it

-I some times get characterization screwed up, not too badly but some times I’m not sure how a certain character will handle the situation I just threw them into

- I get frustrated when I can’t get a scene down right. I can see it in my head but getting onto paper or word processor and spend a lot of time trying to get that one scene down instead of just skipping it for the moment and working on the rest of the fic

-I get into slap fights with my muses pretty often when I want the plot to go one way and they want it go another way. The one who is throwing punches is the one who gets their way

- Sometimes I go over the top with angst and don’t realize it or make the fic a Doom and Gloom fest

I hate:

- my grammar. It's poor, I know. I have trouble with the comma, semi-colen, the full-stops and the other punctuation.

-Wording: I am good with words, yet sometimes, I forget the meaning of a word, and have to look it up.

- I hate my description. It's poor, very jumpy.

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I hope to get better carachterisation, descriptiosns and wording put into my stories.

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Pros:

-Never any spelling mistakes.

-I rarely come across a word that's not uses properly.

-I've never used a word that I don't know the definition of.

Cons:

-My descriptions sound too serious.

-I get confused about what tense my character is speaking in halfway through the story; past or present?

-I never know when I should include something or not, in case it will be relevant to the plot later. And if it is, I have to go back and edit that chapter to include that certain something, so I won't create any plot holes or confuse my readers.

Cons

-Grammer and spelling mistakes

-I never finish what I started

(I have started writing about four chapter books but I never finished any of them, but this summer I probably will).

Problems I have:

- Not enough detail. Scenery, clothing, objects, etc.

- Coming up with the right words to describe certain facial expressions and movements. When it comes to actually writing it down, my mind goes blank.

- Starting and ending chapters well. It's not always a huge problem, but too often it is.

Problems:

- Early works reeked of Sue-ism. Later on I found a proper, honestly speaking quite brilliant solution to that, but.....

- Long, long, long chapters. Something about an unadmitted self-comparison to HP for reference.

- Constantly winding myself into areas un-continuable.

The annoying OCs and laughable angst.

- I give up waay too easily. :P

- I can't describe scenery. Feelings, emotions ect I can do. Scenery, no.

Things I can't bear ?

- I rarely end up something !

- I do horrid mistakes I see afterwards (and just imagine in english when it's not your first language ! But also in french... )

- I describe, describe, describe... (well, I like it, but not everyone !)

- Every time (rare times !) I write a fic, I find there's no style... (I mean, I prefer when I write something else ^^)

The fact that I can't seem to write past the first chapter...

(writes one-shots notoriously)

If I take a break writing something, my style jumps. NOTICABLY. I'm very inconsistent...

Sometimes I just cannot get the right word for a certain thing, facial expression, action, akin to what Apricot said. OR, worse, I can only think of ONE word to describe it, and that word is repeated over and over and over...

My descriptions are either too long or not long enough.

Angst is stupidly hard for me to write. I'm just not a sad person! It's not my forté...which sucks because writing is, in essence, making characters and then torturing them for the sake of a good tale...

I need to get more ideas. I either just blank out for a day or shoot everything down because it's stupid, cliché, or was too similar to something else.

My grammar's decent, at least, but still...

Pros:

None

Cons:

I always I doubt myself because I think my work/writing ability sucks. So, then it possibly does suck. Now I'm starting to loose all interest in writing(stories and things of that nature; poetry and songs are okay) in general.

I really want to update my stories but I have problems finding the best plot twists so I usually end up writing nothing though I do write ideas down (currently my 'new ideas' document has 7323 words, that's more than the word count on my fics).

Pros-

I'm pretty descriptive (But I don't go overboard)

I can keep a character in character (Unless I don't want/need them in character)

Cons-

There are some things that I just can't describe (Certain facial expressions, certain objectives, certain styles of clothing)

I'm lazy, and I've been known to stop writing a story right in the middle

I have too many fic ideas, but if I try to wright them all, I can't complete them.

No matter how many times I see a word spelled correctly, I keep making the same damn spelling error.

I never finish what I say I will.

What can't you stand about your own writing?

-I cant stand the grammar and spelling mistakes.

- I love giving description's and so sometimes My writing becoming to wordy.

I have a hard time with description, and often if the story's in first person, the character rambles on and on and gets sidetracked from what was previously being said...

Uncontrollable plot bunny breeding. I lost track of them all. It's starting to mess with my writting. Every time a new one pops up I have to write the stupid thing down or try to ignore it.

A lot of them are not going to be written.

Uncontrollable plot bunny breeding. I lost track of them all. It's starting to mess with my writting. Every time a new one pops up I have to write the stupid thing down or try to ignore it.

A lot of them are not going to be written.

Are they plots that can be made into subplots or story arcs or are they vaguer, larger, and longer plot ideas? Just curious.

some of them can become plot arcs or subplots but most of them are larger longer plot ideas

I can't stand the fact I get writer's block and get lazy a lot.

Pros

I'm great with description.

I always keep my characters in character.

Spelling and grammar is great with my latest works.

I always finish what I start. If I don't think I can finish something, I don't post it at all.

Emotion in the fics. I'm good with portraying whatever emotion is needed at the time.

Cons

Grammar mistakes in my early works.

Terrible cliches in early works.

Somewhat lacking in creativity as well in my early stuff.

I have to be careful I don't verge into purple prose (to much description) but I'm good with doing that.

Sometimes writing something I'm very happy with, but when reading it months later makes me feel like it could have been so much better.

General problem of not having enough energy to start a new chapter.

Because of my fear of leaving something unfinished, I can never work on more than one story at any given time, regardless of having other ideas for new stories.

At times being caught with plot ideas that I put in a story without thinking whether I actually like using them (though these have at times made for great avenues to explore that have made the story better).

Being stuck for long stretches at a time in not knowing how to advance a story.

Depression strikes regarding some stories that may put me off writing for a long period of time.

I'm generally happy with my writing, which may marr my own perception of what actually is good and what is not (I receive little if no criticism at all).

Factual inaccuracies.

Because of my fear of leaving something unfinished, I can never work on more than one story at any given time, regardless of having other ideas for new stories.

Ooh, me too.

I can't stand that:

- I'm constantly fearing that I've created a Sue. I don't think that I have and no one has said anything to make me feel otherwise, but I can't help but be paranoid.

- I always think my punctuation is incorrect.

- Sometimes I can't figure out how to word the last sentence of my chapters so that it wraps things up and flows more readily into the next chapter.

I thought of another one. Sometimes I have a lot of trouble deciding how to begin a story or chapter, so much so I can over think it and make it seem more complicated then it really is.

I HATE starting new chapters or fics. It seems like I stare at the screen like an idiot trying to figure out what the hell to write.

I hate the fact that I often re write the beginning of a fic at least three or four times.

I also don't scatter enough details of the character, original or cannon. At least I don't clump details any more.

I can't stand the reviewers that beg or whine for me to continue something that is on a permanent hiatus or to post more chapters. I'm a slow writer and telling or begging me to post is NOT going to make me post any faster. In fact it just pisses me off.

Add a good beta running off on me to the list of things that I can't stand or just pisses me off. It's happened at least three times. Never get any kind of reason for it.

Every draft chapter I come up with goes straight back into the bin. Thank god I'm saving the planet using MS word.

Hopeless in sex scenes (m/f), can write steamy (f/f) ones.

Love writing romantic/angst fics but I can't do romance unless I'm attached.

All my chapters are average in length and I'm an incredibly slow updater.

Organization with the chapters, like how events goes, ... choppy

Oh n I don't finish whatever I've started. If I ever did, it's a rare moment to indulge in.

Maybe it's easier to write f/f because you're a girl? I mean, I know it's easier for me--being a girl and all--to describe what girls like, how they move, and, likewise, I'm familiar with the female figure. Maybe it's hard to write m/f because you it's harder to picture the guy's role, like how he feels, how he moves, etc?

I don't think that I could write a proper and steamy romance scene. I don't even like fluff so much, so I haven't even read too many steamy storybook scenes.

However, I do find http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsexpassages.html to be hilarious. Those are excerpts from original fictional works that have actually been published. Yowzer, right? So bad that it's mind-boggling.

I am notoriously slow at updating even though I spend a lot of time writing, a lot of it is garbage to me. I hate it when I get reviews that say ' Write more' or ' Please update' or anything like that, it puts me off writing and comes off as annoying to me.

I get pretty graphic and dark at times but then have to go back and neuter the fic because some one on FF.net whines about it despite the clear warning and threatens to raise a stink about it.

I often remake the beginning of a fic three or four times before I'm willing to let my beta look at it and hope I don't scare them off.

Something I cannot stand about my own writing:

I can't stand the act that I have ideas for the stories I write, but no way to string them together.

I get esaily distracted, and can't seem to find a way to just write.

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