My dialogue sucks. The conversation always seems forced or really unnatural. I use 'and' way to much for my - or anyone else's liking. I can't seem to stop torturing my poor characters with tragedy.
My biggest one is starting out with a good idea and then realising I have nothing to progress to, which then leads to an incomplete piece. I also think I try too hard sometimes.
I tend to rush supporting scenes (exposition and the like) and not put enough attention to peripheral characters. I get hung up on the main action or main characters and neglect the other elements that enrich the story. Dialog is difficult for me. I am not much of one for small talk, so it is difficult for me to write dialog for characters who partake in it.
^I normaly have no problems at all writing Dialoge. I may be shy, but i'm still pritty talkitive though.
My whole process is flawed, I typically get ideas for scenes that occur throughout the middle but I have no idea how things will begin or end. Not knowing how to begin is the worst since without a beinnin I can't really start.
I'm melodramatic. Everything's a big deal, and really breathless and desperate and as such I have about fifty commas in a sentence and all sorts of crazy adjectives. I also worry that I'm too descriptive sometimes to write effective action...and I think my dialogue could use some work; I'm like Cogito, I can never write small talk. I also worry that I focus too much on the central plot to even think about sub-plots and the like. Too single-minded.
In poetry, I'm self-indulgent. Like, I often shroud my pieces in such dense, indecipherable metaphor that it becomes a pile of pretty gibberish. In prose, well, I rarely write prose so I have many places to start.
My biggest flaw. Starting half a dozen stories then never finishing them because I get inspired by something else!
I tend to use past tense a lot. Especially where it isn't needed. It was worse in school but I still find myself closely reading my words.
ermm, i have a lot t be honest with ya but i don;t want to sit here listing the bad things. so, my worst flaw would have to be how i always tend to go off track with what i am writing and finding i have got lost along the way
im great with dialogue and action and describing and all that, but my flaw is that: without realizing it, i continually dig my characters into a deeper and deeper hole. A lot of my work ends at a bleak point because theres no easy way to continue.\ also i have trouble keeping stuff in the same verb tense, but most reviewers dont notice
I think it's hilarious that this was a question about flaws, and most people just bragged as much as they could. Oh, vanity.
It's human nature. What was that scene in the Di Vinci code when that albino guy whipped himself? That's not where I'm at.
Really? I think that scene is definitely sexy. ... Not really. But still. This is supposed to be about honesty and everyone's just like: My writing is waaaay too deep for mere mortals to 'get'. and My description is like hella intense, idiots don't get it. Man what a tragedy. I disagree about it being human nature though.
You haven't listed a flaw yet mate! You've just rolled in and decided to give us all ****. Are we to assume your the new god of writing or something? Also, mate, if your going to go and criticize people you hardly know, at least do it in a less blatant way. Otherwise people will probably think your a complete dick head.
I tend to write very formally at times, meaning that speech doesn't sound particularly natural. Also, I tend to centre my storys around two or three specific characters and possibly two or three locations and you'll be lucky if I include anyone/anywhere else! I also tend to include mountains of descriptions or none at all...
Are you blind? I listed a flaw on the first page, so all you've managed to do is discredit yourself. I'm not criticizing. Simply observing that this thread is useless. She might as well have said: brag about yourselves and pretend that it's terrible. PS. I am a complete dick head.
I have a hard time keeping my character in one environment, because I feel like I run out of ways to describe what their doing in that environment and such....and you know, I could work on description.
