The things you dislike in writing (joke answers recommended)

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The Can't Write Right Club

 

[Moonpearl]

When you know what you're trying to write in your head, but actually writing it feels like a cat trying to play the piano.

When you think you've written a very intense romantic scene but, when you go back and read it, it turned out they, like, shared a glance for two seconds or something.

When your characters decide they just don't wanna anymore.

 

[TheHelpfulFawn]

Writing.

 

[OvidLemma]

I hate it when I write myself into a corner and can't come up with a resolution or scene progression that both makes narrative sense and is interesting/satisfying.

I also hate it when the word goblins crawl out at night and steal my writing. Hey! Those were my words! I wrote those! At least they usually leave thank-you notes... though the notes don't make much sense since they're composed entirely of the words they didn't like.

 

[AncestralIdiot]

Probably my own writing skills.

In my head, the scenes are very vivid and amazing, but when I try to put it on paper, it just turns into trash.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[Discount_Blade]

i don't like to write. i only like it written

I'm trying to find something more in this statement so I can make a half-sarcastic half-teasing comeback and I'm coming up empty. Odd since I'm a bit of an asshole and this should be right up my alley.

 

[BenJepheneT]

I'm trying to find something more in this statement so I can make a half-sarcastic half-teasing comeback and I'm coming up empty. Odd since I'm a bit of an asshole and this should be right up my alley.

the deepest point of nihilism isn't simply downtrodding the scenario but to present the truth in such a bareboned way that any form of rebuttal just seems like an effort to sugarcoat it

but hey, at least we know that we need painful effort to get results

 

[Freesia.Cutepearl]

When you know what you're trying to write in your head, but actually writing it feels like a cat trying to play the piano.

When you think you've written a very intense romantic scene but, when you go back and read it, it turned out they, like, shared a glance for two seconds or something.

When your characters decide they just don't wanna anymore.

I feel the cat thing on a spiritual level, I tend to say out loud what I'm typing, and I can't count the times I go back and look, and either see missing words, words out of order, and by some freaking crazy anti-miracle of god, sometimes I write completely different words, and occasionally even phrases from what I thought I did, and what I said, and it freaks me out. I also have a bad habit of mistiming my space, so I en dup with thingsli ke this. OR that, where I CApitalize too many characters.

The second one kind of reminds me of how, I've written scenes, and then go back and look and entire sentences or parts are just outright missing, despite me, thinking about that happened, somehow I magically fail to write it without realizing.

Also had times I wrote dialog imagining it one way and then read it back and it's like, oh, nuts, that's actually not conveying what I thought at all.

The last, when your characters decide they just don't want to anymore. Listen ok, I had plans, PLANS YOU HEAR, but then, Lilith decides to spend half an hour playing RC car with a Spider, that was made by shapeshifting her hand into a giant super fuzzy soft(emphasis on soft and fuzzy, can't be creepy if it's fuzzy[her logic]) tarantula, connected to her body via spider silk, all, because she was lamenting over how bad of an Isekai protagonist she is, and rebutted herself with, At least I can do mildly entertaining things like this! *shapeshifts* Oooh.. RC spider!

 

[Moonpearl]

I feel the cat thing on a spiritual level, I tend to say out loud what I'm typing, and I can't count the times I go back and look, and either see missing words, words out of order, and by some freaking crazy anti-miracle of god, sometimes I write completely different words, and occasionally even phrases from what I thought I did, and what I said, and it freaks me out. I also have a bad habit of mistiming my space, so I en dup with thingsli ke this. OR that, where I CApitalize too many characters.

The second one kind of reminds me of how, I've written scenes, and then go back and look and entire sentences or parts are just outright missing, despite me, thinking about that happened, somehow I magically fail to write it without realizing.

Also had times I wrote dialog imagining it one way and then read it back and it's like, oh, nuts, that's actually not conveying what I thought at all.

The last, when your characters decide they just don't want to anymore. Listen ok, I had plans, PLANS YOU HEAR, but then, Lilith decides to spend half an hour playing RC car with a Spider, that was made by shapeshifting her hand into a giant super fuzzy soft(emphasis on soft and fuzzy, can't be creepy if it's fuzzy[her logic]) tarantula, connected to her body via spider silk, all, because she was lamenting over how bad of an Isekai protagonist she is, and rebutted herself with, At least I can do mildly entertaining things like this! *shapeshifts* Oooh.. RC spider!

In the very first yuri I tried to write when I was younger, I did this so badly that, when I went back to read it years later, I realised there was 0% yuri in it. I also recall writing a huge, sprawling story, and there was... I think less than a page?

The miracles of writing never cease.

 

[KiraMinoru]

I hate the pay off for proofreading and editing, the more effort you put into it, the less you get out of it in return. You actually do better by not proofreading and editing at all. In fact, you’re rewarded for it as the more mistakes you make the more engagement you get from people complaining and pointing out these problems. More engagement via this method leads to the algorithm thinking the minimal effort work is good and it promotes it more.

 

[Eleven_M.A.]

I hate how these damned stories just won't write themselves on their own.

 

[placeintime]

I hate the cliff hangers. They're killing me from all of those cliffhangers

 

[Discount_Blade]

I hate how these damned stories just won't write themselves on their own.

I too suffer from this disease. Is anyone working on a cure or....?

 

[Eleven_M.A.]

I too suffer from this disease. Is anyone working on a cure or....?

Yes, I am. I'm certain I'll make a great breakthrough. Tomorrow.