What do you hate most about writing fiction?

[Truegho]

What do you hate most about writing fiction?

For me, how to write a good ending is always a pain in the backside. I have tried to write the ending first, but even then you have to work out how you are going to get there.

Another aspect of writing that I don't like - and which bores me to tears - is having to over your work again and again to iron out any mistakes, repetition etc.

Finally, it can be a huge headache trying to dream up a story that hasn't already been done to death (e.g. vampires, serial killers in the woods after teens etc.).

Writing, at times, can be like suffering constipation and trying to climb Mount Everest at the same time!

[Lilies13]

Writer's block! Um I even like the revision, the correction, I like the process...it very meditative. I never feel frustrated when writing, it's only when I'm not writing...then I'm a bitch on wheels! A friend once told me that she likes me better when I write, cause then I'm the nicest person in the world! When I'm not writing, everyone I know keeps their distance! Lol! Hell has no fury like a woman's temper!

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Personally I think writing's the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Perhaps you should try a musical instrument? Or painting?

Long days and pleasant nights

[DarkWriter]

Nothing. I enjoy using my imagination. Seeing how far my characters are willing to go and what really is hiding behind door number two.

But that is just me, others may be more suited for writing non-fiction.
Either way you need to go over your work to edit and make corrections.

Whether I am writing or reading, I hope never to lose the enjoyment of the printed word.

If you have written fiction in the past and are just now finding it unbearable. Maybe you need to pull back and refresh yourself by working on something else.
Or if you are not under a deadline, take a day or two to kick back and just read.

I wish you luck.





If it shakes and moans, don't open the box.

[Prince of Darkness]

I like last thing you said there!

And yeah, you have a point. The best thing for me about writing fiction is probably zooming out on the computer and seeing the black on white, or just looking at the pages from a distance. Makes me feel like I did something worthwhile

But seriously, revising is irritating to a point and the worst thing probably has to be worrying about the originality and roundness of the story.

My WorkInProgress is second draft now, just beginning, and I just have so much troubles with style. My draft has a prologue and an epilogue that follow on each other like in Salem's Lot.. and it frustrates me that I can't do it another way and make it original!

But that's writing for you, you can't live with it and you can't live without it.

[TheWalkinDud]

Research. The protagonist in the novel I'm currently writing is a doctor, and it's resulted in hours of mind numbing research.

[aussiewonder]

The fact that I cant do it, would be my biggest dislike!

[SKfan2006]

writing fiction can actually be funner since you can think of so many people and places that could and couldn't exist. for example i've got a bunch of characters and they all have one thing in common, they're teenagers and since i'm a teenager i know how to write them. non-fiction would have to be harder since you have to spent years researching the person or place and make sure everyone's personality is correct or you'll be critisied big-time.

[PatInTheHat]

The impending perjury charges...oh uhh, never mind.


Personally, I've never really thought about writing anything but zingers and actually, never even those until this magic pipeline called the internet came along...they just simply popped out of my mouth.
The great thing about this is, I can delete them if I want before I send them out...or even if I didn't, nobody can then crack me upside my punkin' head...nah nah na na nah!

Since I've been on here however, and have participated in the Halloween story the last two years (thanks to the encouragement of a very sweet bawdy broad on here who's out on bail...you know who you are you desperado you), I may give it a whirl for the hoot of it one day.
Besides doing those stories, the last time I'd really written anything that would be considered fiction, has been over twenty years ago in the last year I was in high school...no not an assignment, more of a shall we say, reasons I didn't need to be there.

I'm constantly impressed by you folks on here that can write to your hearts content, for if nothing else the satisfaction it seems to give you.
The inevitable frustrations I read about, seem to lend themselves to that satisfaction in very strange ways...I think I'd like that oddly enough (and there's not much danger for you to lose an eye or a digit or two like doin' woodwork either...now that's pretty cool right there is what I'm thinkin'!).
Is cathartic the word I'm looking for?
I'm starting to envy y'all enough, that I'm trying to wrap my head around it...the actual process of it that is.

I gots me some pretty groovy and whacky (and just plain whacked) stories, but since they're all absolutely true, nobody could possibly believe them...truth being waaayy stranger than fiction and all that stuff.
(I'm supposing you just change the names & zip codes?)
I guess that's why I love reading fiction so much, it doesn't seem to stretch my imagination to the breaking point nearly as much as reality certainly can (has).

Anyway, thanks so very much to you all for teaching me a few things...where the hell were all of ya back in high school?

[SKfan2006]

well the last time i actually wrote something was a couple years ago for english where we had to write an original short story or poem so i did one based on a dream i had like 5 years ago about being taken to an alien space station and finding out i had powers like the power rangers. let me tell you the story was terrible because i only had a couple days to think out how to plot it out.