Hardest Part to Write?

Umm.. Haha. I don't really understand what exactly the point of this is- to motivate us? or?

So.. just to answer- Why haven't I given up?
Because I will die some day- any time any day- and I want to write something down before I die. xD
I don't care if people read it- or if people don't read it. If it's bad or if it's good.
But at least I have written it and have put it there. It is to tell a story to myself and by happy about it. xD

It's like... Things I want to do before I die.
Same goes for my art as well.

Anyways- writing is easy- you can write one crap after another and it's stil called writing.
But anything that you want to create with your heart in it (sorry for being cheesy) will always difficult in a way that it requires effort.
I don't think anything is easy if you really, truly, care about it. Just my thought. xD

 

I write each morning beginning at 5 a.m. But, then, I'm lucky -- I'm retired and on disability. The bad news is, I can't walk -- but the good news is, I can sit in a recliner and tap out as many as thirty pages in a morning on my Kindle Fire. I transfer the saved files to my PC before rolling them into the finished book in Word. Then, I upload the file to Kindle Direct Publishing. I've published two novels and one novella, plus two nonfiction book this way. I dunno -- seems like writing on the Kindle Fire is a lot like texting and the words seem to flow. Try it, you might like it better than staring at a keyboard, which intimidates me . . . Good luck!

 

I like to bleed.

 

Yes-no.
Do some flashpieces. Build your confidence. Writing is 80% percent editing ( that's a b.s. percentage I just made it up. But it might be accurate. )
Climbing a mountain is hard. Now writing a short story about a man climbing a mountain - definitely easier. More comfortable too.

 

I tried to give it up but I gave up on giving it up.

 

I haven't given up because while it is hard work, it isn't hard for me to write. I enjoy it and I just get better the more I do it.

But in general, yes writing well is a bloody lot harder than most people think.

 

You should consider writing screenplays for "The Office"

 

Because it's not hard for me. It just flows. Sure I have to fix a few things here and there but overall [for me] there is nothing hard about it.

 

Same here. The only hard thing for me is actually to end something I've begun...

 

Writing isn't hard for me. Plotting is...

Anyway, why haven't I given up? I think after you've put so much effort into a novel, it's just hard to give up cus giving up would mean all that work previously was wasted. That, and I'm just really, really stubborn. But then again I think you've gotta be pretty stubborn to finish a novel in the first place

 

For me, the answer is tricky. I would say wording is one of the hardest parts because I always seem to magically forget a lot of adjectives. It's as if the word is always on the tip of my tongue, but I have to look it up for 5 minutes to find it. Whenever I'm not writing, I can always think of any word.

What about you guys?

 

Finding the most efficient way to deliver dialogue. Saying something in only a couple of words that has the same effect as several lines of dialogue.

 

I found staying focused to be the bane of my endeavours. Belated ideas, that'd dupe me into feeling they're too good to ignore, trying to muscle into stories. I cope with that issue now by closing the doors to inspiration (after a time), and poss. entertaining the notions as their own entity/spinoff at a later time. I can't pantse, I've learned, as things get unwieldy.

Also suffered as you have @Kerilum with immediate word selection, and some not availing themselves on demand, even though intuition promises they exist. Placeholders now [they're [for] the future] hold their seat till either something's forthcoming of foraged from a thesaurus.

@Phil Mitchell — the sense of accomplishment felt though when cracking such a challenge.

 

The come-down after first draft high.

'Brilliant, brilliant, marvellous, incredible...darling read this please, please it's only 2000 words, hah hah, I am so good.'

...

'Oh no, no, no, this shit doesn't even make sense. It is actually stupid and shit. I sent it to the Times of India, The Wall Street Journal, Private Eye, nnnng...'

 

Wording is definitely up there. But I think the hardest thing for me is writing a piece only to find that it reads nothing like I envisioned and having no idea how to go about fixing it. It's why I end up with so many recycled story pieces than actual stories.

 

I'd say balance.

When to be descriptive, when to be terse. When to tell, when to show, getting this balance right is mastery of the craft.

 

Polish, for me. The editing and revision and 'bigger picture' thinking, I guess, that's required for turning a raw product that's middling decent into one that's actually worth seeking publication for.

 

Endurance. Continuing when no one is telling you to with no certainty of success for months and months and month.

 

Plot. Plot. Plot.

 

I'm a pig in mud whenever I'm working on character development or researching historical details to inform my narrative. But when it comes time to develop the plot... I am tempted to hide all sharp implements in the house for fear of gouging out my own eyes. I second guess every single freaking plot development: is that red herring too subtle? Of is it just too bloody obvious and therefore ineffective? Is that plot twist not actually interesting? Will my readers see this coming? Am I diverging from the main path too much? Do I need to diverge more? Is everything I'm writing too predictable? Is this even realistic?

Agony.

 

Just general motivation. I love my story and I love writing, but I always can find something else that needs to be done and far more important, like replying to this thread.

 

Subplots. Subplots. Subplots.