Where are your weak spots?

[inkdust]

I've known for a while now that I struggle with grounding my scenes with setting details. I'm so wary of drawn-out descriptions of places and people that I run the risk of writing scenes that read more like dialogue scripts. So one element of tackling my second draft is consciously adding in more background details.

Where are your writing weaknesses? What do you do to try to overcome them?

Comments

[serria]

Oh, that's a really good point, too. I think the transition from fanfiction to original comes with a lot of obstacles... actually, this would be a good topic on its own, but basically. Yeah. As you said, character descriptions are pretty unnecessary in fanfiction, unless one character is introduced to another for the first time, and his/her first impression is really important to the scene. There's other things, too - when I write fanfiction, I'm complementing the original series, and when I have a character do or say something, the audience knows the context and background of that character making a choice. In original, you aren't playing off of anything, and I think that makes for some legitimate differences between writing good fanfiction, and writing good original fiction.