RedSpiderLily
Angst Fanatic
- Jun 30, 2023
- 10
So once upon a time I used to write an obscene amount of fiction for my own enjoyments and one day I just stopped for no reason what-so-ever. Recently, I've started again, due in part to me not being able to find stories with the content I craved in them, and I was wondering if anyone wanted to chat about writing and shit. My mood has been bad as of late due to a lotta irl stuff (which is what sparked me making an account for the first time a day or so ago despite having regularly lurked as a guest for roughly a year) and I was thinking that maybe it could be fun to chat about writing genres/projects/techs/etc with each other.
For my fellow writers:
What is your favorite genre to write and why?
What is your favorite scene you've ever written?
What is you biggest flaw as a writer?
What is your biggest strength as one?
I'll start.
My favorite genre to write is angst. I'm not sure if it's partially because I use it as a way to vent or what, but I love tearing down characters and having them slowly be built back up again. I also love to just have them in a state of not OK and have other characters accept that they're not in a good place mentally. I guess I kinda reflect my own mental state and desires a lot with that. (But this isn't the section for that, so I digress).
As for my favorite scene? It probably has to go to one I did recently where my MC was talking to his drunk friend/kinda boyfriend on the phone, and their BF was just drunkenly rambling about how he won a bet and in his attempt to emphasize how much money he won, he declares that he could buy a toaster. MC proceeds to say something on the lines of, "An entire toaster, huh? I don't know what I would do with that kinda money."
It's such a stupid interaction and I just love it. I don't know why, just that I do. apparently my readers do as well, as it's the most commonly referenced scene by those who have chatted with me about that specific story, haha.
One of my biggest flaws as a writer has varied over the years. In my youth it was that I didn't add descriptives in scenes like I should have. It was pretty much all dialogue, which made for a very short and un-stimulating read.
As I grew a bit older (older teenage years) it became the opposite. I would shove insane amount of visual details into paragraphs, and not the good kind, either. It was the kind of details that make your eyes glaze over as they don't actually provide anything useful in them. Shit like clothing brands and being overly specific about the details of said clothes. I was very bad about it in action scenes as well. Too many descriptives that left nothing for the imagination, something that a more experienced writer explained to me when I was around 20 or so and I took to heart.
Currently, I think my biggest flaw as a writer is the fact that I like to ramble, lmao. Long run on sentences that are a nightmare to to revise in post, especially if I wrote them at 4am as I often do.
When it come to my biggest strength as a writer, I think it's my willingness to experiment and try something new with every story. Different formatting, writing styles, etc. To use ideas that aren't very popular solely because I think it would be fun to at least try them out. They might not always work out, but at the very least I had fun and learned from them.
For my fellow writers:
What is your favorite genre to write and why?
What is your favorite scene you've ever written?
What is you biggest flaw as a writer?
What is your biggest strength as one?
I'll start.
My favorite genre to write is angst. I'm not sure if it's partially because I use it as a way to vent or what, but I love tearing down characters and having them slowly be built back up again. I also love to just have them in a state of not OK and have other characters accept that they're not in a good place mentally. I guess I kinda reflect my own mental state and desires a lot with that. (But this isn't the section for that, so I digress).
As for my favorite scene? It probably has to go to one I did recently where my MC was talking to his drunk friend/kinda boyfriend on the phone, and their BF was just drunkenly rambling about how he won a bet and in his attempt to emphasize how much money he won, he declares that he could buy a toaster. MC proceeds to say something on the lines of, "An entire toaster, huh? I don't know what I would do with that kinda money."
It's such a stupid interaction and I just love it. I don't know why, just that I do. apparently my readers do as well, as it's the most commonly referenced scene by those who have chatted with me about that specific story, haha.
One of my biggest flaws as a writer has varied over the years. In my youth it was that I didn't add descriptives in scenes like I should have. It was pretty much all dialogue, which made for a very short and un-stimulating read.
As I grew a bit older (older teenage years) it became the opposite. I would shove insane amount of visual details into paragraphs, and not the good kind, either. It was the kind of details that make your eyes glaze over as they don't actually provide anything useful in them. Shit like clothing brands and being overly specific about the details of said clothes. I was very bad about it in action scenes as well. Too many descriptives that left nothing for the imagination, something that a more experienced writer explained to me when I was around 20 or so and I took to heart.
Currently, I think my biggest flaw as a writer is the fact that I like to ramble, lmao. Long run on sentences that are a nightmare to to revise in post, especially if I wrote them at 4am as I often do.
When it come to my biggest strength as a writer, I think it's my willingness to experiment and try something new with every story. Different formatting, writing styles, etc. To use ideas that aren't very popular solely because I think it would be fun to at least try them out. They might not always work out, but at the very least I had fun and learned from them.
