What do you find the hardest in writing or what's one of your disadvantages + BQ's?

Question

I know this is my third question and BQ's. I just love reading your answers :)

Sooooooooooooo, what's your greatest problem in writing? Mine would be grammar, spelling and reading aloud. I'm half deaf, so i have great difficulty knowing what sounds right sometimes. I find reading aloud awkward, since I say a tenth of my words wrong. Not that I can't read very well, now way, but I don't move my mouth right for some syllable like th or s's. (Your probably wondering why I write than. Well because its much easier than speaking :/)

BQ1: What instruments do you play, if you do at all?
(I've played piano for seven years and tuba for two.)

BQ2: What's you dream book cover for your novel?
Probably one with my main characters trampling through a thick mist (it would be black in the background) with the Thief King's face grinning from the shadows.

BQ3: Have you ever had a crush with one of your characters, or could you see you with them?
(All my characters have someone they like, so I wouldn't be able to 'come' into the relationships without being beaten black and blue or forming a love triangle, and what writer wants to start a love triangle (except for Stephanie Meyer.)

BQ4: As we all know flowers have secret meanings, like: Lillie's sweetness and Neetles Hate. Which Flower would suit your story the best?
(A Blue rose and Monkshood. Blue Rose, since they don't exist, represent fantasy or imagination, Monkshood represents (or means if you see one) approaching foe and evil.

BQ5: Did you know that, every eight letters you read has an E? If it doesn't (which is rare) it has an A instead? (Check out excerpt of the story Gadsby which has not a SINGLE E in the entire novel.)
(Guess what? I did because I found out about it :D)

Answer 1

My greatest problem is that my family doesn't really understand my choice in wanting to write stories as a career, they keep trying to push me to take the more conventional route that most young people take. They don't discourage me at all but they don't make it easy to follow my dreams. I just want to try and write a novel while I'm still young and can afford to make mistakes if this happens to be one and I don't think I could ever be happy if I didn't do this now, and I don't want to be one of those people that takes a job that is meant to be temporary but then in five years from now they're still stuck where they where, wanting their dream, but lacking the fire to get it done.



And if you want to improve your grammar, you should read the posts at http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/ where a girl reads the Twilight books and combs through the pages pointing out poor grammar choices, redundant passages, failed literary effects, and all these things that, if you pay attention and perhaps take notes, can teach you how to write better. Her posts are all sarcastic and a lot of fun to read and very easy to understand, and though her point is not to teach but to illuminate the inglorious of what a bad piece of writing Twilight is, though the way she explains it can change you.



BQ: Piano, same as you, 7 years.



BQ2: My book is a fantasy and I think I'd like the cover to look like a journal, like a magical, medieval prop journal, like http://bookwormsreadmorebooks.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mygyk.jpg though a little more adult looking.



BQ3: Well I think you kind of need to love your love interest a little bit to make it feel more real. But aside from that there is one character that I do love more than my main character.



BQ4: Foxglove, because it's poison wrapped in a subtle, unsuspecting, charming package.



BQ5: Nah...

Answer 2

BQ1: What instruments do you play, if you do at all?

- None :( I was learning how to play the guitar and keyboard but I have a short fuse and got angry when I couldn't do something, so in the end I gave up.



BQ2: What's you dream book cover for your novel?

- The one I made...Of the MC in a medieval dress, stroking her horse.



BQ3: Have you ever had a crush with one of your characters, or could you see you with them?

Yes I had a little crush on one of my characters...



BQ4: As we all know flowers have secret meanings, like: Lillie's sweetness and Neetles Hate. Which Flower would suit your story the best?

I don't know...



BQ5: Did you know that, every eight letters you read has an E? If it doesn't (which is rare) it has an A instead?

- That's not true. I opened a random book and counted 8 letters along from the beginning of the sentence. I did it 5 times and yes there was an e or two, but none of the eighth letters were an e.

Did you mean that within 8 letters there's always an e?

Answer 3

I love answering BQ questions. I also love answering surveys and filling out forms. I know, I'm weird. :)



I've never really thought about this. I guess it would be my short attention span. I get bored with stories after about a week, so I have a million unfinished stories that I worked so hard on and then just abandoned. It really frustrates me that I'm unable to stick with a project. I think the furthest I've gotten is about eleven pages.



BQ: I played the piano for seven years, and then dropped out because I still couldn't read music. I was memorizing all my songs.



BQ2: I don't know. Book covers aren't my thing. I can't really summarize my work with a picture very well.



BQ3: I usually develop characters that I can see myself with, just because that's how I work.



BQ4: This is an interesting question! I love your blue rose answer. Mine would probably be a white rose, for innocence since my characters are pretty innocent and see the world from in a very naive way.



BQ5: I didn't know that, but I'll counter with a fun fact too. People with light eyes can see better in the dark, because dark colors absorb the little light and pale colors reflect the little light. Basic science! :)

Answer 4

I screw up in my sentence structures and clarity, it's the one thing I have to look out for because obviously it makes sense in my head but when someone else reads it it's like I'm speaking in codes and I never get to the point. Most of the time I go off on weird tangents and I end up talking about something else entirely. So... yep. =D



BQ1: I played guitar for a year and the organ for two or three. I couldn't retain any of my guitar skills but I did retain some of the organ skills I acquired but since the organs I see nowadays are inside churches, I started playing around with the piano.



BQ2: A view of my fictional city from a hill but the houses of my characters are visible and distinguishable.



BQ3: No, that never happens to me but I do put some the desirable qualities I find in a guy into the love interests in my story but I don't put them all in one guy, I spread them out and around but even then, I'd never get a crush on my own character because that's kind of like incest... sort of, probably, maybe, somewhat. And love triangles, I don't do them too much since I'm not confident in executing them.



BQ4: Interestingly enough, the female characters in my story are all named after flowers or trees. So I think a whole flower field or flower garden would suit my story best. Different flowers, different personalities, one colorful environment.



BQ5: That is interesting! Didn't know that. =D

Answer 5

It's not the writing I find difficult, but finding the self-confidence and endurance to finish a story. I have a lot of issues with not finishing my stories once I start them, because I get a major case of the "this sucks".



BQ: I play piano and guitar, and I played the Baritone for six years in school.



BQ2: My book is about a Dreamworld, so it would have to be one of the images from there, like the field that folds in on itself.



BQ3: Nope, although certain characters have traits I'd find desirable (like one character who is very charming).



BQ4: I'm not sure. Is there a flower that represents dreams and dreaming?



BQ5: Yep.

Answer 6

Mine WAS prose. But I got over that. Now I suppose it would be problems with trying to create too much mystery in my stories, often confusing the reader . . . making them have to figure out the story with the clues I don't give them ;)



BQ: I used to play piano and recorder, but honestly I'm not so musical so I gave them up young. I sing though . . .



BQ2: Something simple, I can't think of what a good cover would be yet . . . =l Something mysterious



BQ3: Nope



BQ4: Hydrangea, that means perseverance. I don't know though. My story has many themes.



BQ5: Really? Oh. Cool.

Answer 7

Pacing! Ugh, it's my biggest weakness. I used to always stay on topic, if my character wasn't thinking about one part of the plot, they were thinking about another. Now I've let their minds wander a little, and it has helped with the whole book.



BQ1: I don't.

BQ2: I haven't thought of it. It would probably be formatted like a pamphlet - no picture, just my snazzy, eye cartching, brochure-like title. Which I will not reveal on a public forum.

BQ3: Nah, I modelled one of my characters behaviour on my my boyfriend's behaviour, but he's not that great.

BQ4: Hmmm, that's a tough one! Um, probably a rose bud - still green - you're yet to see what will be uncovered when it blooms.

BQ5: I did not know that. <--- Hey, that sentance doesn't!