What are your worse writing habits?
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Worse writing habits?
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Reply by ๐.๐. ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๏ธ๐โ๐ฝ
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Getting the theres and the yours mixed up when I'm drafting. And sometimes in later drafts. I have to pay meticulous attention because I have frequent brain-farts.
Reply by RIP
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Reply by Junky Punky Patrick
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Not writing enough or staying consistent.ย
Reply by Creativinsanity
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Reply by Introvert
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Waiting for inspiration rather than making writing a habit. I will go months without putting down more than a line or two, then binge in one day and write ten-twenty pieces. Itโs awful.ย
Reply by Gwendolen
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Not finishing anything, not writing down my ideas, and waiting to get inspiration.
Reply by Taralyn Culpepper
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Never sticking with one story at one time. I am like that dog from Up. I like NaNoWriMo because it forces me to focus on one story at a time.ย
Reply by Bexks
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I use to write poems all the time and it was easy and nice....., now when I write I ramble on and on into a story and I lose focus on what i am writing.
Reply by vml520
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Reply by mae !!
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my brain goes so fast so often times iโll miss basic words that tie a sentence together! itโs annoying to go back and read a rough draft...
Reply by Swampbaby
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Starting a story and getting distracted.ย
Reply by KONSTANTIN
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not knowing when to end a scene. so many of my scenes just go for one beat too long and it messes the whole mood of it up.
Reply by Poe_thetic_lie_sense
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Not writing consistently is something others have posted. (That I'm guilty of)
Reply by Charlotte
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Being to hard on myself and worrying about writing the perfect draft on my first try
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Reply by leigh
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-- starting a piece with fresh inspiration, and then abandoning it after 1-2 days because that inspiration has been lost.
Reply by NilesTheDemon
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Getting tons of ideas, but never actually writing anything down...
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Reply by Rocket!!
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Writing a good story dropping it coming back to it and the changing everythingย
Reply by erth2ex’
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with writing poetry this is more apparent with newer writers, and I noticed it looking back at my own old writing is using a powerful format but a simplistic language and mushing them together. it weakens your writing and it's very easy to spot!! this can also be applied to just regular ol writing too I suppose
Reply by august.
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not reading enough tbh. my writing is okay if you ask me, but i know itd be better if i read more.
Reply by danny :3
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i use too many commas and put them in the wrong places, especially when it comes to dialogue.
rather than putting,ย
"'This is an example of punctuation done correctly,' she says, 'You do not put a comma after the sentence.'", i always do something along the lines of,ย
"'This is an example of incorrect punctuation,', she says, 'Too many commas make it somewhat difficult to read, and also grammatically incorrect.'"
Reply by Ray
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I always can't find descriptive words to use that I haven't used the last million times in the same chapter ;-;
Reply by H I M E
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I absolutely love world building, and I obsessively flesh out every little nook and cranny of each place and character. Sitting down to actually write the story is a huge struggle for me, though.
Reply by Mason
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run on sentences, could literally be the most profound thing ive ever written and it will be fully incomprehensible because i use like 7 commasย
Reply by trenchfry
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Not being able to appreciate my writing. When I read it, it's like hearing my own voice, so I try not to read works that I've already completed. Editing is pretty difficult for this very reason.
I do know that I'm a good writer and that there's nothing wrong with my writing voice, I just hate it because I know it's mine. I'm working on being more confident, though.
Reply by โ natpat โ
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Reply by ggeneralgrunt
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i edit my writing as a go along .. smthing that would normally take 20 minutes to write costs me an hour O.o
Reply by ๐. ๐
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Reply by br33zzz <3
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-Never check my work when I have to do it for school
- that and when I write irl terrible handwriting
-A LOT of misspellings if I didn't have google
Reply by DAME
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Using a little TOO much description that it gets to be boring and also writing down all sorts of inspirations and ideas but never really wanting to make them into full blown out stories. I also take too long to write a single story and being "satisfied" with it, I'm a harsh critic of myselfย แฏฃ.แฏฃ
Reply by Corpse Groom
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I too sometimes miss words when writing, however I believe mine is that I write about love far to often
Reply by Arianingsun
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Thinking that i wrote something good and read it again a few days later and realised it was shit and editing, i hate editing.
Reply by Psilocybin "Psi" N'ber-Ermes
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I use a LOT of commas and end up showing too much and forgetting that dialogue is supposed to be more than body language and dialect XD
Reply by StarJuice
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Not being consistent enough or when you make a character's backstory way too complicated.ย
Reply by vic_zombi3
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forgetting to mention important details, or forgetting important plot points, especially when summarizing or writing a story.
Reply by Lilly
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Adding too many descriptive words and metophores that it takes away from the actual intentions of my writing.ย
Reply by ShadowBunny
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Reply by Umy
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Reply by expycer
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Perder el gusto por no sentirse lo suficientemente bueno, dejando de escribir hasta que ya ni te dan ganas de siquiera leer o agarrar tu cuaderno.ย
Reply by Sum
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im horrible at taking criticism and i tend to repeat myself or overexplain a lotย
Reply by RaccoonaeX
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I think mine is that I tend to repeat words, some of them clichรฉ, Iย also struggle a lot with musicality (when I write poetry)