But I 'm getting better. In making myself sit down and write. 
What's the Hardest Part?
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Like lauren I just can't bring myself to sit down and write. Not writing results in overload of info in my head which makes me forget the characters. Hence my novel sticks to my head, going nowhere. But I 'm getting better. In making myself sit down and write.
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Finding an ending that I can stick to. Thief Assassin has had ...1,2,3,4,5... five different endings in my head and the latest one is scary.
Also sticking to a certain amount of M~ish/Cs. Taylor wasn't meant to appear until the second book! But he decided to invade! -
Editing
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A number of things really. Like having my writing all over the place, then improvising when I can't find a particular section.
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The hardest part for me is getting myself to actually write... especially in my current situation. I'm stuck at the first chapter of my novel. I so want it to be perfect and so far, I like/love how everything was written so much that I'm scared that my writing will begin to fail. I'm like alienated/intimidated by my own novel. lol
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The hardest part in coming up with a new world. You have to change things that you see on Earth for your new planet. It makes you think but after you think you're happy that you did. And getting all the characters to fit into that world, planet, you created. That's hard too. You know what you want them to do and how to do it, but you don't know how it's going to effect the world you made for them. The planet you wanted them to live on will change because of what they're going. That's the hardest part to me.
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As said by my peers before me, I hate the first five or so chapters. They always suck, no matter how much I try. I get so overly nervous about them and over-edit until it barely even sounds like English, then I have to do it all over again!
Also been said: Listening to background music while you write is a wonderful help
I like to think about the future of my novel more than I like to think about the present, and what I'm editing. Editing is SOOOOO much harder than the actual writing. i get all OCD, and then I'm beside myself. I'm only fourteen, after all, and I'm always frightened that no one will take me seriously. And I'm dead serious, believe me. Also, making my stories realistic is hard, because I can't understand human natures other than my own, not even the characters I created. I do, after all, have to create emotional patterns that are consistent, realistic, and within the acceptance of every day society. Love is especially hard to write, because I myself take such an unorthodox and direct approach to it.
*frustration*
I also sympathize with you procrastinates and writer's block sufferers. One of these days, they'll invent a cure to the blasted thing, I know it. -
The hardest part is definitely writing. I'm good with plotting and planning, but when I sit down to actually write it out I can't even get the first sentence down. It's really frustrating, 'cause I have big plans for my characters and I just know this story will be famous and the plot is so intricately complicated that I can't wait for the world to see how brilliant I am, and then my characters are like, "Nope, sorry, not today." I thought the author was supposed to be the one in charge...?
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Haha, for me it's the other way around. I wish I could just write the whole thing without a plot. Write, write, write. Which is why I abhor beginnings. I end up writing them like middles. And I accidently memorize the chapters, because I return to edit them so much. I wish I could time-travel into the future, ask myself for my novel, and then take it back to the present and type it up. It'd make things so much simpler.
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Once, my main problem was finishing a novel--not because I wouldn't sit down and write, but because I would always go back and edit what I'd already written before moving on. Again and again and again, until I felt like the writing was perfect. Which, I mean, you just can't write that way. It's so much work to go back and tinker with the grammar and wording and insignificant metaphors when you're still writing the first draft--you don't move on until you think each sentence is absolutely perfect, but it doesn't matter, because at the end of the draft it'll still be a first draft with plot holes and underdeveloped characters and what have you.
But then I tried NaNoWriMo for the first time, and that cured me. No time for nitpicky edits when you're trying to reach 50k words in 30 days.
So now I think my main problem is a) writing instead of procrastinating (unless it's November, because NaNoWriMo still kicks my butt into gear) and b) getting over revision jitters and just pushing forward with revisions even when I start feeling like my writing totally sucks. -
I have a lot of trouble with the actual plot. Even if I have it all planned out, there will be a moment when I will want to change it. Radically. It totally messes up with my previous chapters.
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