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[ SECRET POST #2765 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2765 ⌋

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[Natalie Dormer]

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[Punky Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye)]

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[Interstella 55555]

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[Longmire]

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[Dracula Untold]

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[Transformers Prime]

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[Rik Mayall]

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[Scarlett (Starcraft 2)]

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[Orange is the New Black]

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My art being emotionally vapid. I mean, p. much just draw cute things, so.

It's really hard for me to depict action or change in a way that doesn't feel clunky and contrived. So I tend to default to a lot of angst and inner monologues because they're what comes naturally. But that's not really all I want to write forever. I also suck at plotting in general.

My sentences frequently try to become minivans. Also a lot of my stories, when I got to dialoggy bits tend to fall into a pattern of "blank said, verbing a thing." Sometimes a "while" will get up there. But it's like mixing narrative and dialogue is hard, yo.

"blank said, verbing a thing."

Also guilty of that, but I feel that as long as the things verbed have relevance to what is going on / aren't overused, it does keep the scene grounded.

My sentences frequently try to become minivans.

I love that phrasing - mine do too. I have a tendency to write like I speak, which means lots of linked clauses that really can't easily be broken into two or more sentences, because they're all dependent clauses and closely related enough to all be a single thought.

...see? :)

I love the minivans part!! My writing tends to dissolve into rambling, run on sentences if I'm not paying attention. Minivans and caravans - those are good words for it!

Just cut the said and switch to "Blank verbed a thing." I bet a lot of them will sound better.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-30 00:05 (UTC) - Expand

I do that too.

And I can't stop inserting "however" into EVERYTHING.

We've always been told "show, don't tell" but lately, my "show" consists of "something" that the current POV character is seeing/hearing/smelling/feeling/tasting. "Something that resembled roses" or "something as hard as a rock" and such. DAMNIT SELF. QUIT IT.

I really suck at drawing men. No matter how much I practice they always look horribly stiff, weird, and just plain wrong to me.

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othellia - 2014-07-30 02:05 (UTC) - Expand

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tasogare_n_hime - 2014-07-30 02:32 (UTC) - Expand

People seem to have a hard time realizing that my characters are female unless I resort to stereotypical descriptions.

I feel like often use the same phrasing, but then when I look for it in other stories I can't quite find it, so I wonder if it's just in my head. Either way, though, I dislike that my mind apparently had these clichéd preset ways of expressing itself through writing.

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inkdust - 2014-07-30 00:01 (UTC) - Expand

perspective and coloring... especially the coloring. Trying to draw something in perspective is at least fun if fruitless.

I suck at plot or any sort of thoughtful, creative stories. I can only write plotless porn or fluff or the occasional angsty one-shot. I wish I could churn out a creative, multi-chaptered fic.

It takes so damn long. I want to be able to, I don't know, telepathically beam the idea at the page, instead of spending hours wrestling with words to make them do the thing, tell the story. I actively lose time when I'm writing, so that I look up four hours later with a backache and four thousand words of splurged gibberish needing fixing.

I mean, it works. I get there in the end. But I wish there was a way that didn't take so long and didn't involve so much back cramps afterwards.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-30 00:01 (UTC) - Expand

My writing is simplistic garbage, no matter what I do. I think it's gotten worse over the years. You think that would be bad enough, but do I crank out turds at an insane rate? No. It takes me forever just to come up with enough corn-nutty shit to pack together so it can pose as the next chapter in my steaming, fraudulent pile of a fanfic.

Yeah, writer's block sucks, especially after six years. But I'm in too deep and can't quit. Trouble is, I don't think I do the story justice anymore, if I ever did.

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asecretchord - 2014-07-30 00:45 (UTC) - Expand

Overuse of "but," and of adverbs. I lay the blame for the latter at the feet of minimum essay length requirements in school.

I can't write long stories. I want to so, so badly and I really admire people who can churn out 20k, 50k, 100k+ fics and manage to maintain a consistent, interesting story. But I just... can't. I lose the plot, or I get caught up in description, or things just get so convoluted that I get confused, or... I don't know. I've never been able to do it well. I don't mind writing relatively short one-shots, but I'd love to write a proper novel someday. Or even a novella. Hell, even something longer than 20 pages!

I've also been feeling somewhat stagnant in general, lately. I used to be quite good at description but these days I feel like I'm just repeating myself, or not painting the image as clearly as I could. I know I've always toed the line and my writing is a bit too flowery for some people, but finding a balance is difficult.

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darkmanifest - 2014-07-30 00:41 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-30 02:14 (UTC) - Expand

I'm always frustrated with myself and my art. I always feel like I should be better. Especially compared to other artists my age.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-30 18:43 (UTC) - Expand

I think I keep expecting too much from my audience. For instance, I recently wrote a scene that was meant to hint that a character was closeted trans, but I was way too oblique about it, and many readers just thought she was acting weird. I'm trying to learn to drop bigger hints and set up more foreshadowing.

I think I rely too much on witty banter to get my characters' personalities across.

Also, I am terrible at writing fight scenes.

For writing, I try so hard to make a first draft the Only Draft, so I get really stuck and stop.

For music, it's just fuckin' hard, man. xD; I love it, and I do it, but my fingers always fall over each other. I may have passed RCM grade 4 piano, but that doesn't mean I play well!

I'm a writer, and I have trouble writing meaningful detail. Often times, I get caught up describing details that don't matter and/or don't impact the story in a meaningful way. I also tend to gloss over details that matter because I get caught up describing details that don't matter and/or don't impact the story in a meaningful way. I also lose steam really quickly, so I have trouble writing longer stories. That might just be lack of discipline and patience on my end, though.

1. I feel like I'm writing every character the same way. I swear I have just a few (fe)male personaliy types who, bar the different lives, circumstances and occupations, eventually all end up thinking and speaking the same way. *headdesk*

2. My sentences tend to derail if I don't pay attention to how I write them so I eventually end up with long, mouthfulls of 'minivans' (my official new term picked up from this thread, THANK YOU)...like this one. I AM NOT EFFING CAPABLE OF KEEPING IT SIMPLE, HELP!

3. Sometimes I forget details from my own ongoing multi-chaptered stories so, inevitably, I end up creating minor plot holes. ;;

4. English is not my first language and I JUST GET SO JEALOUS when I read stories with rich descriptions of clothes, places, people, food...it's enough to discourage me from writing, because I'm sure I'm just using the same sentences and descriptions ~~and apparently I also lack enough motivation to seriously start learning more advanced English terms so it's my fault either way~~

The posing of my art (which tends to be portraits of my writing an RP characters) - unless I'm deliberately trying to move outside my comfort zone, everybody is standing stock straight with one hand behind them (because I can never figure out what to do with it). When I do have something more natural or dynamic, I tend to end up with some pretty massive anatomy fails - though I do have a few where I've managed to get everything right. I need to force myself out of my comfort zone more often just to deal with that.

My writing...I'd like to be more comfortable with describing characters, so when I have to describe an aspect of them because it's important for some reason, it wouldn't stand out so damn much.

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