What are you good at when writing?

[Motsu]

Where have I heard of this question before? Ah, right—the interview! It's always these honchos with their questions. Like man, you start asking yourself some questions if I were ever in an interview, what would be my strength? Maybe if I tell them I am 6 inches I can get hired! Look, I am tired of all these "oh I am so bad at these or that or that I don't know what a kilometer is emmoootioonal daaammmaage"—just why don't you not do that if you keep complaining rather than asking for better ways and practicing. So yeah, strengths that make up the caliber of your writing skills.


Also, can we all agree that whether you have the aptitude for writing if your writing is always late on the deadline then you'll always lose the job? Haha, not like you guys work under a company—ANYWAY! I have to feed my blobs in the basements.

 

[Lloyd]

I am good at everything except time management.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I'm good at ruining good ideas when I write.

 

[Motsu]

I'm good at ruining good ideas when I write.

Send me the good ideas then gimmme gimmee

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Send me the good ideas then gimmme gimmee

Spoiler: Sure.

 

[Motsu]

Spoiler: Sure.

I sure wasn't prepared to see Terrorblade.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

I think I'm good at powering through my volumes? Like in the span of...hmm...from May 2019 to January 2022, I was able to produce 11 books on my isekai novel (an entire volume worth of side stories too, and a quarter-book worth of chapters for my four part prequel), a book on my low-fantasy story (plus a quarter volume of the 2nd book), a half-book worth of chapters for my romance story, and two chapters on a manga I'm writing.

I can guarantee the quality, at least. But what I'm not sure of is if it would be to someone's liking, since we all have preferences.

 

[Deeprotsorcerer]

I'm good at doubting myself so hard that I spend twelve editing passes on a snippet that really needed just three despite writing regularly for about seven years now.

The one person getting in your way the most is yourself.

For real though, I do tend to overedit but at the same time, I really do think I've a knack for the mechanical end of things: flow, grammar, parsability (even if I do use needlessly complex diction at times). If I try hard enough I can make nonsense feel good to read through out loud.

 

[ChaosGodOfJashin]

I'm good at procrastinanting the whole max level.
Holy crap because of this thread, I finally finished a chapter for my novel.

 

[Kenjona]

Nothing, hence I have published nothing. Just read lurk and reply to others on the forums.

 

[Mystique]

I'm good at turning an obscure idea into a few thousand words ? seriously I never plan chapters but I can always write them.
I'm also fairly good at fight scenes.
That's it for me ?

 

[Ai-chan]

Ai-chan is good at creating worlds. Because Ai-chan's world was not created, but experienced. They're all from Ai-chan's dreams. Ai-chan has lived countless lives in Ai-chan's dreams, from being a commander of a victorious army to being a sexually abused wood elf kidnapped by an evil fat human master to serve as part of his elf harem.

There were even times when Ai-chan got confused when Ai-chan woke up. Like that time when Ai-chan dreamed of being a collared witch and panicked when the collar was gone and Ai-chan couldn't sense the master anymore before trying to fly out through the 5th floor window.

 

[KiraMinoru]

The only thing I’m good at is not giving a shit about how bad my writing is.

 

[AliceShiki]

I'm really good at making my main character cry... >.>

 

[Katsuya]

I am literally good at nothing. I just like writing. I would like to say drama is my specialty and well, it is. *I write the fastest when i'm writing a dramatic scene*. Writing rated r is not my thing. I suck. lol. If I could describe better then I would have said thriller. and stuff.

I'm really good at making my main character cry... >.>

Please say they are not like suburu from re: zero. lol.

Lol, I think Im good at making myself cry, ahahahhaah. idk. probably not but whatever.

 

[Deleted member 1244]

When I am writing or working on a creative project, I become very competitive in board games, and by extension very good at them... don't know why....

 

[BearlyAlive]

I get told I'm pretty good at monologues, pretentious descriptions of fights and pseudo-philosophical brabbeling. All the stuff I hate when I read something xD

 

[greyblob]

i like characters. I'm good at making up characters, but I'm not sure if I'm good at writing them.

 

[Motsu]

I'm good at procrastinanting the whole max level.
Holy crap because of this thread, I finally finished a chapter for my novel.

Congrats! ? Now I need to finish a chapter myself.

 

[Topgun1908]

I'm really good at coming up with new ideas on the spot and accidentally foreshadowing. One of my stories had a prologue that was supposed to be one chapter. 8 chapters later I had finally finished the prologue because I kept changing where my story was supposed to go which made my story better in my opinion, but it also tells me that I shouldn't bother planning out my stories and instead just write about whatever pops up in my mind.