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Sat Jan 07, 2017 8:21 pm
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StellaThomas says...



In the absence of chat, we're going to need somewhere to complain about being blocked, or hating what you've written, or not having written at all, and for someone to support you through that.

This is that place!
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Sat Jan 07, 2017 10:11 pm
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Omni says...



Stop giving me places to complain and procrastinate on writing! XD

I can't write right now (heh) ughhhh

I have all these ideas in my head but seriously putting them down on paper is terrible. My writing even bores me when I re-read it.
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Sat Jan 07, 2017 10:26 pm
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Dest says...



The number one thing I hate about writing is this irrational anxiousness I get sometimes. At times, I will feel such apprehension while editing/writing, since all I can think about is how no one will like it or what is wrong with it. Other times, I feel everything I write is gold, and I have to write words on everything- sticky notes, receipts for gum, math notes, etc
  





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Sat Jan 07, 2017 10:40 pm
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StellaThomas says...



@Omnom - your status was my inspiration for this.

Like both of you, I currently am in that place where I just think, "Everything I write sucks! Why am I so bad at this?!"

It's terrible.
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Omni says...



Haha I thought so :P

but yeah, even my action scenes are really boring right now. It really puts me off of writing when I re-read it and think it's not terrible, just really boring. To me, that's even worse. I can live with it being terrible XD
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Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:24 am
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Holysocks says...



Yikes. Yeah, I have to agree with @Dest and @Omnom. I get like that a lot.

I also really dislike naming worlds/towns/kingdoms/any place... it might sound silly but it's kept me from writing things in the past! These days I'm getting better at just slapping a temporary name on things and carrying on my merry way.
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Mea says...



@Holysocks - saaame. That's seriously the biggest thing that will stop me in my tracks when writing. Character names, too. Lately I've just been finding an appropriate random generator on this site (which is amazing, it has name generators for everything) and generating names until I find one I like.
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Omni says...



Honestly yeah i suck at naming things as well. It takes me forever to name people for my SBs, and the countries in my latest SB went through like five names.
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Yeah, I like naming characters (unless they're side characters- I don't like naming side characters) personally... but naming places? HENG.
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Zolen says...



The majority of the enjoyment I get out of writing is making the world. So I love naming places, people, and species.

I hate how awkward my dialog is though.
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KiraThePotatoChip says...



Writing good stories in general. Actually, my biggest problem is being so critical of my stories that they get diluted and cliche at times.
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Apricity says...



;_; everyone's writing fiction. I'm gonna be the oddity and complain how in a memoir, you never know what to put in and what to take out. 30 mins out of a 40min sesh is basically, 'do I keep this or nah?' 'do I write this event or that event?'

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Yikes, @Apricity, I can see that being difficult. I've also wanted to try to start a memoir but at this point my life is way too boring for that to happen and I just don't feel in the mood for it. Other than that I've been digging through/brainstorming new ideas prose-wise. For poetry, by now I've ditched the project Seaside but that does give me an opportunity to still write about it so I may either go back to that or use that idea for something else.

I have a story called "Improvisers" for now that's prose that I haven't ever really started but I'm still hung up on that idea is that it's normal people trying to cope in a world with people who use magic and where magic is considered to be upperclass (not in all cases) but that world is one that stills fascinates me.

Because, the protagonists of the story are called these "Improvisers" and they fight with whatever that's around them, even if it's insane like plates or boxes of cereal or old clocks. The last idea is one that I have ideas running through my head for like crazy and I might as well write it so I think I'll kick-off from there and then work on poetry. Rambling always helps.

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Guys seriously, naming things is the worst. Especially last names and places. I have come up with a solution for this whereby I just use someone's name from YWS and come back to it at a later time (although a lot of these names have stuck as well, oops).

But yeah, sometimes I write "they were on their way to..." and then stop. Open the word doc a month later, realise I still don't have a name for the place and then it dies.
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Omni says...



@StellaThomas I'M WITH YOU THERE. I'd have stories where I'm so far in and none of my characters or places have names yet. So, a sentence would be "_____ sauntered into the ______ castle, and shoved her coats into _____'s arms." And I'm just sitting here like "hmm.... good enough."
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