What is your greatest writing weakness Veeky Forums?
Mine is over describing environments. Each one of my chapters have massive pace destroying paragraphs at the start of them that go on about all the intricate details of the hills/building/beach/whatever. It all feels important to me at the time, and as I am still battling through my first draft I am pushing forward rather than wasting time continually revising at this stage, but I know that when I come to revise for my second draft am going to have to sort these sections out. Plus I'm probably an underwriter so my word count is going to suffer.
Michael Roberts
>describing enviroments at all t. your nigga Dosto
Anthony Wilson
read stoner if you want to find (what i feel to be) a good example of short environment description. williams provides brief but not lacking (succinct i guess) descriptions that dont interrupt the pace and feel vivid in my mind.
on the other hand, try reading lolita. nabokov has humbert go on and on about landscapes and beauty, but the prose is so motherfucking good that you feel invigorated just reading it.
if youve already read those, try going back over passages of them. it really helps me.
Ethan Sanders
Thanks for the recommendation. I will certainly look up Stoner as I have not come across it
Blake Ross
My poetry has been criticised as too abstract. I really don't want to give too much away to the reader, but this often leaves people with no clue what I'm talking about.
I suppose I expect to be misunderstood and this exacerbates the situation.
I'm not entirely sure how to solve the problem. Maybe I shouldn't try to cram as much into my poems.
Anthony Green
>My poetry has been criticised as too abstract. I really don't want to give too much away to the reader, but this often leaves people with no clue what I'm talking about. You're writing poetry. This is fine. Take your work to more intelligent people.
Ayden Price
I don't write poetry too often, but my understanding is that you wish to describe a feeling in a way that will make others who feel the same connect with the author. I would try and focus on that kind of a reader so you don't have to worry about giving too much "away" to a reader, as they are on the same page as you, if that makes sense?
Asher Gray
give us an example fampai
Anthony Jones
I suppose joining some poetry societies back in oxford will do the trick
Yeah.. maybe I could try to make my poems more self-contained though
also pic was the worst offender, I think
Josiah Hughes
I think, in this case, they were using abstract as a euphemism.
Jackson Foster
for what
Gavin Kelly
to me I think you have actually got a little too much stuffed into these two stanzas. You might benefit from letting each image breathe a little
Angel Hughes
Complete opposite for me. My prose is very 'beige'.
I think I need to read a dictionary to figure out how to describe things in the least bland way possible.
Anthony Sanders
Thanks. I agree.
Lucas Howard
Do you not, user?
Owen Garcia
anything that can result from being to much of a logical literalist >difficulty make flawed characters/characters that make decisions i consider illogical >difficulty writing emotion >difficulty with metaphors and analogies >difficulty writing intrigue/scheming
if only writing was "tell, don't show" i'd already be part of the western canon ;_;
Jonathan Evans
Describe the environment as your characters interact with it.
Oliver Peterson
>too abstract no just afraid to use small words
t. used to have the same problem
William Jackson
Not writing, short attention span, easily make excuses for myself. But that's just being a lazy fuck, I know you mean technically. I often get the criticism "it's pretty good but what's the point", meaning it's just a bundle of images and dialogue with no strong thematic ties. Currently doing outlines to try to help fix this.
Isaac Gutierrez
Dostoiévski messed up big time for not describing environments that frequently.
The only time that he did, he did great. Raskólnikov's room and the city. Look up the book.
Hudson Flores
Honestly, if you can pull it off, you can use these descriptions as an amazing asset of storytelling.
Specially when you're trying to present the decadence of a place.
Christian Hughes
Try to create subjective surroundings and not sounding like a purple prose masturbating faggot tips Veeky Forumsaspies?