The many frustrations of writing~

[Auticorn]

What frustrates you the most when it comes to writing? Is it not being able to think of how to write a chapter? Is it facing a bout of writer's block you can't seem to shake? What?

For me, it would be a lot of things. I get frustrated with myself because it seems like my brain doesn't want to bother. Like, I know I have more potential than I realize. I also know that if I can feel like writing, I should be able to do it no problem, right?

So, what are some of your frustrations with writing?

 

[bobandbill]

A current one I'm having is that I have mplete ideas for stories. One particular one has changed a whole bunch (and I've been flip-flopping between it being a Pokemon fic or original fic, bluh), but there's a lot of gaps in-between that I'm yet to sort out. Any ideas for that have just come via a drip-feed.

 

[Aisu]

When you get the perfect idea for a story, but by the time you get on a computer then you've completely forgotten it.

 

[Nolafus]

Probably the actual part of writing the story out. I can't seem to focus on anything for too long, so it's really the hardest part for me in more ways than just word choice. It's often a painfully slow process as I try to concentrate as long as I can, but my mind likes to hop around too much for me to spend as much time as I want on it.

 

[Bay]

Hardest part for me is being negative over my writing to be honest. I can be able to focus on finishing one story until the end fine, but on occasions where I haven't written in several months it's because I don't feel good about my writing. I feel bad having that feeling sometimes as I know several folks that like my writing and I don't want anyone to feel they're obligated to comment on my work. Whenever someone else gets praise on a much more constant basis, though, I feel I'm more mediocre than anything. I have someone told me to combat that is review other works and I've been doing that when possible, but that feeling still creeps in once in a while and I'm just like "why bother", bleh. Luckily I'm able to get stuff written the past several weeks, so hopefully I can keep that momentum up.

 

[Rediamond]

Finding time now. I have so many ideas, but so many other things to do...

 

[whtwlf]

Finding motivation to sit down and write can be difficult some times, so I try and remove any distractions before I get started. I also find that working through writer's block can be a struggle. I find the best way is to skip forward in the story's outline and start writing on that instead, then working my way back towards the section I'm having trouble with.

 

[Bounsweet]

Usually when I develop stories, I have a bunch of little scenes and ideas I would like to implement so I sort of just throw them all on a page. The hardest part for me is putting them together chronologically in a way that makes sense and develops the story. The actual writing process is really easy for me, but the development part of it is so... ugh. I can't write if I have nothing to write about, lol.