what do you think your biggest strengths and weaknesses are as an author?
i could just list a whole bunch of weaknesses and zero strengths bc self-hating author u feel bUT i'll try thinking hmm
strengths:
- ideas? i have bursts of inspiration, i always like jotting them down in evernote. they're literally random - it could be a song lyric, movie, advertisement, or anything. like one time i was in science class learning about water conservation and i had a 'no water world' apocalypse idea lol
they usually come in the forms of really rough concepts or quotes!! i have so many ideas my evernote is filled to the brim with story ideas and character ideas
- meticulous with characterization? whenever i plan out a story i write down the rough concept, then i plan the characters - i don't write the plot first, the plot comes naturally as i get a sense of who my characters are. because i delve into plot making with knowledge of my characters, i think i'm less prone to making them act out of character in the story.
but i only plan out stories w character plans and stuff when they're multichaptered if they're oneshots i usually just write
- kind of connected to the one before but bc i focus a lot on characterization i guess they become pretty realistic people you could see everyday? sometimes they're inspired by real people ex) sehun from easy peasy lemon squeezy is kind of an incarnation of myself and a friend of mine lol
weaknesses:
- lazy: what's the point of having so many ideas if u never write them + sometimes i don't edit
- permanent creative block: i want to write but i can't write?? like i type out something but it's so horrible and forced that i have to backtrack over and over again and i give up it's an evil cycle
- not good with descriptions: i look back at my fics and my descriptions are really poor and stale? like i think my english is deteriorating w rapid progress smh
- awkward, wordy sentence structure: this is something i really need to work on ugh
- awkward dialogue: not all the time, but sometimes i find my dialogues really cringy or unnatural, like it sounds weird said out loud
- character archetypes get old: bc i write with the same ships it's easy to make them seem all the same in the stories i write bc some character traits are bound to overlap and i think i still need to improve a lot on characterization
strengths:
- ideas? i have bursts of inspiration, i always like jotting them down in evernote. they're literally random - it could be a song lyric, movie, advertisement, or anything. like one time i was in science class learning about water conservation and i had a 'no water world' apocalypse idea lol
they usually come in the forms of really rough concepts or quotes!! i have so many ideas my evernote is filled to the brim with story ideas and character ideas
- meticulous with characterization? whenever i plan out a story i write down the rough concept, then i plan the characters - i don't write the plot first, the plot comes naturally as i get a sense of who my characters are. because i delve into plot making with knowledge of my characters, i think i'm less prone to making them act out of character in the story.
but i only plan out stories w character plans and stuff when they're multichaptered if they're oneshots i usually just write
- kind of connected to the one before but bc i focus a lot on characterization i guess they become pretty realistic people you could see everyday? sometimes they're inspired by real people ex) sehun from easy peasy lemon squeezy is kind of an incarnation of myself and a friend of mine lol
weaknesses:
- lazy: what's the point of having so many ideas if u never write them + sometimes i don't edit
- permanent creative block: i want to write but i can't write?? like i type out something but it's so horrible and forced that i have to backtrack over and over again and i give up it's an evil cycle
- not good with descriptions: i look back at my fics and my descriptions are really poor and stale? like i think my english is deteriorating w rapid progress smh
- awkward, wordy sentence structure: this is something i really need to work on ugh
- awkward dialogue: not all the time, but sometimes i find my dialogues really cringy or unnatural, like it sounds weird said out loud
- character archetypes get old: bc i write with the same ships it's easy to make them seem all the same in the stories i write bc some character traits are bound to overlap and i think i still need to improve a lot on characterization