Question:

[ziggyjones44]

Regardless of genre....... for your average short story.... what do find the hardest to get right / achieve / be happy with? Anything included, from initial idea, characters..... all the way through to grammar or sentence construction? any part of getting the damn thing completed

 

[Rob_Royale]

How the story flows. Most of my editing passes are working towards that.

 

[ziggyjones44]

But are you talking narratively? or more RE grammar etc?

 

[MrPixel]

Answer.

 

[filthytrancendence]

Answer.

Daily Double.

 

[Rob_Royale]

But are you talking narratively? or more RE grammar etc?

Yes, narratively.

 

[ziggyjones44]

I think Mr Pixel's had too much coffee..... or sun....

 

[KittyOfSteele]

To stop fucking around and sit down to write the damned story.

 

[NuclearFairy]

What @KittyOfSteele said, but also getting that first scene setting of the story right.

 

[ziggyjones44]

What do you mean Kitty? This is a valuable learning experience........ def not fucking about!!

 

[AwkwardMD]

Hemingway had it correct.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down and bleed.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

What do you mean Kitty? This is a valuable learning experience........ def not fucking about!!

Exactly what I said: to sit down and start writing.

Writing isn't the hard part. It is starting to write the hard part.

It's the motivation cycle. Motivation creates action, and action brings more motivation. However, in order to start the cycle, action comes first, and then motivation follows.

 

[dirk2024]

Regardless of genre....... for your average short story.... what do find the hardest to get right / achieve / be happy with? Anything included, from initial idea, characters..... all the way through to grammar or sentence construction? any part of getting the damn thing completed

My problem is focus. I have several stories, each under several concepts. I write as I think/fantasize, which is apparently all over the place.

 

[Voboy]

I find it hardest to finish. Starting is easy. Ideas are easy. Writing is easy.

If the characters don't talk to me? Finishing is hard.

 

[Britva415]

 

[ziggyjones44]

Thanks a lot for all these replies, they've made me smile and am a couple of pages in - not even writing the story I intended, but an older one thats been in my head for a long time........... and so one I didn't have an excuse for not just "Start typing the damn thing, for God's sake!"

 

[pink_silk_glove]

The hardest part of writing a short story is keeping it short.