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Anna
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My Weaknesses
« Thread Started on Dec 19, 2007, 9:49pm »

Okay, nobody's perfect. Recognizing your faults is one step closer to fixing them.
1. Sometimes I don't provide motivation for my characters' actions.
2. I use names repeatedly! (Like Anna, for instance....)
3. Sometimes I make my sentences too short, or too long.
4. My plots occasionally ramble on for too long.
5. I need to learn how to end my stories happily!

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Re: My Weaknesses
« Reply #1 on Dec 28, 2007, 12:13am »

My biggest problems are:

1. Finishing. I start a whole bunch of novels, but have trouble finishing them
2. Getting from point A to point B. I know what I want to happen, but sometimes I don't know how to get there.
3. Unrealistic circumstances. Even fantasy has a limit. I often step over the line.
4. Not enough description. I never describe people or places enough. I can see them in my own head and I forget that others can't.

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Re: My Weaknesses
« Reply #2 on Dec 31, 2007, 2:02pm »

My biggest problems....

1) Finishing a story that I start writing.
2) Lack of motivation at times.
3) Writer's block! I really have to stop being lazy and write simple outlines.

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Re: My Weaknesses
« Reply #3 on Jan 1, 2008, 8:55pm »

Moira, our problems our much alike!

1. Getting it all down on paper. I have millions of starters that are about a page long. I've got too much in my head, but they're all just beginnings. The only story that has gone over five pages so far is Barbaro's Angel Academy, and it's all crap.
2. Getting from point to point, in BAA, this is a big one. I know the basic plot, I just don't know how I'm going to get there.
3. I either describe nothing or describe to the point you have no idea what I'm talking about. This needs to change.
4. This is only in BAA so far, but my characters almost die without actually dying waaaaay too many times. Yuliya's almost died like, five times now.
5. Writing fighting scenes. No matter what, this is just so hard. The only way I can write this is to make it a whole "damsel in distress" thing, but my females aren't weak! So it doesn't work! I mean it's like, She slashed him quickly but he dodged and tried to attack her. She defended with her blade...and on and on and on to the point where it's boring reading it, but if you actually saw it, it'd be exciting.

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Re: My Weaknesses
« Reply #4 on Jul 3, 2009, 12:16am »

1. Starting. I mean, it's easy for me to start writing in the middle of the story, but it's so hard for me to come up with a good way to start a story. I've never been good at "hooking the reader" with a great beginning.
2. Overusing A names. Anita, Amanda, Amy, Anne, and Abby are my most commonly used names.
3. Guy names. Most of my guys are Travis, Matthew, Vince, or Trent.
4. Rambling descriptions. I'm so fixated on balancing out dialogue with plenty of description that I often describe things that aren't important or just don't belong.
5. Mood changes affecting my writing. I often abandon stories in favor of new stories that excite me even more.

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Re: My Weaknesses
« Reply #5 on Jul 6, 2009, 1:03pm »

I'm lazy. I really need to learn the meaning of butt-in-chair
once I come to a road block, I tend to not try to think a way out of it
failure to think a story all the way through -- and I know better!
dialects and accents in dialogue. I can imitate accents with my voice, but taking out certain letters to write the accent is very difficult for me and saying "He said in a Scottish accent" isn't as realistic as actually writing out the Scottish accent in the words.

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Re: My Weaknesses
« Reply #6 on Jul 10, 2009, 1:26pm »

1. Laziness. I get distracted far too easily.

2. Endings, I can't end anything well, if I ever manage to get to the end (see above).

3. Characters and characterisation, I always worry about making either a one-dimensional Mary Sue character or a character who has such a deep backstory it could fill its own novel. (I'm far more worried about the latter than the former).

4. Story progression/exposition/transitions. I have trouble getting from one point in a story to another, also its difficult to know how much exposition to put in, and its also hard to tell when to do that.

5. Avoiding tropes/clichés, I'm constantly checking TVTropes to make sure I haven't put too many bad clichés in my writing.

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Chocolate Milk Junky
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Re: My Weaknesses
« Reply #7 on Jul 28, 2009, 1:31pm »

1.) Finishing a story it hard for me. I often loose interest for a few months sometimes years.
2.) Lose of motivation
3.) Description, I'm awful at getting real descriptive of the appearances of my characters as well as the worlds they see.
4.) writing in different accents and dialects is practically impossible for me. T^T

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