writing frustrations

[Lune the Guardian]

Oh yeah, that's true... It's easy to be overly critical of your own writing and if you're looking for outside opinions and get no reviews, you might become more unsure of your work.

[Gavin Luper]

Taking months to write a chapter because you keep second-guessing yourself.

And trying to write perfectly. I don't know about everyone else, but I don't seem to draft, I just expect my writing to be perfect the first time it tumbles onto the page, which means I end up putting way too much pressure on myself every time I go to write, and end up being dissatisfied with anything less than what I think is good.

[Astinus]

Taking months to write a chapter because you keep second-guessing yourself.

I understand how that feels. XD

That's why it took me longer than expected to finish the first draft of my fanfic, because I just couldn't get the words to sound "right" in my head. x.X Whenever I think I could finally move on from the scene, I would read it over, think it didn't make sense or that it could be better, and rewrite it again.

Finally, to fix that, I just moved on to write the rest of the fic and come back to that one scene. By that time, I was ready to write it so I could finally call that fic "finished", so I wrote out the scene, and was able to see it as "good".

And the other things people have said have frustrated me as well. I know how it feels.

[Goodnight Seadra]

Oh yeah, that's true... It's easy to be overly critical of your own writing and if you're looking for outside opinions and get no reviews, you might become more unsure of your work.

Yeah, that's why I'm unsure what people here think of my chaptered fic. No one reviewed it yet. ^^; At other forums other people like it, but I tend to think maybe other people in a different forum will think of it differently and would like to see their input. Eh, not troubling me too much, though.

And Gavin, I know a few more people like that. They always try to write perfect the first time. Me, I do drafts and would fix it up later. That's how I managed to finish the first draft of NE in summer of '07, actually. The bad thing though is sometimes you might keep rewriting and rewriting and still unsure if it's good. ^^; And yes, the keep rewriting the whole chapter/story part frustrates me. ^^;

[Shadow Wolf]

I get frustrated when I have an idea about a plot and then, I don't know how to picture it.

Also, when writing poetry, it frustrates me that I have to rely on a Rhyme dictionary to find some appropiate words (synonyms) to decribe emotions, events, and most rhymes.

[PancaKe]

I picture all these scenes, shots, lines, etc in my head and then can't think of a plausable story to fit it into.

I can't think of anything without reading over it and going "wow, corny"

I have trouble with the dialogue of characters now, because I read it and go "Yeah right, who would even say that?" (even as I'm re-reading old old fics like LVH)

gay.