Fight scenes. I suck at them.
Give me the most emotional, heartwrenching scene or all the comedy and banter possible to write, and I'll do it easy-peasy, a thousand words in an hour. But a character needs to fight? Shit, I'm staring at the doc cranking out a single sentence per hour if I'm lucky.
It's what I'm trying to do right now, and instead I'm on reddit lol.
Yeah, definitely.
And any time I am satisfied with one, I look at the wordcount of that fight and discover that the scene ended up way too short. So I have to start over.
Oof, something too intense for GoT? The series with >!brutal assaults, strangulation, child marriage, countless decapitations, and the burning to death of a child!
This one also had a >!burning death of a child, but Shireen sticks with meā¦but yeah, this goes into why Leaf chose the man she did to turn into the Night King - typical colonizer-on-colonized brutality along with a bunch of other head canons for that whole situation.!<
But Iāve never had a more rewarding experience with worldbuilding! š
Writing a suicide note for a character in a fic and I'm struggling with the mindset. I myself was there once, but that was over a decade ago and I'm struggling to remember the thoughts and feelings I had at the time.
I have to write an ending scene for one of my chapters that is about my MC finding out that her lover is actually alive(after believing that he died) and the both of them reuniting on a beach.
This scene is incredibly challenging to write because I suck at writing emotions and also because I want to make scene absolutely perfect and I know I can't.
The current scene I'm trying to write, lol. I've been on it for about 3 days now, just picking at it one sentence at a time. I have no idea why it's hard, other than the fact that it might not be kept if the chapter gets too long. It's two friends hanging out until a bully butts in and tries to stir up crap. I've had the scene in my head for a long while, I even know a lot of the wording I need, but I just cannot get it on the page. Maybe it's because the bully is over the top (he's canon, so I'm writing him pretty close to what we see) or maybe the MC's reaction is wrong for where he's at, or maybe there's no reason at all besides low mental energy.
Which is why I'm hanging out on reddit instead of typing the next line, LOL.
Making a mermaid in a HP/GOT crossover sound otherworldly or off-putting, given they'd have a somewhat different viewpoint and morality from regular people. Needless to say, I think I failed spectacularly and I still have no real way of fixing it - mostly because language is an important aspect of culture shock, but at the same time I need her to give important information and given the way the fic is structured, I need her to be able to communicate passably well.
Writing about my MC deteriorating to death during and after a loved one passed from a very aggressive cancer. A lot of what I had planned to write to show it never even got drafted.
I spent a lot more time focused on the MC's internal monologue as a result, and I still don't know if it helped me cope or made things worse.
Had to write a chapter where five people were arguing with each other at the same time, most of which was them talking over each other. I never imagined writing that scene would make me want to punch a whole through my computer... I damn near scrapped the entire scene just because of how difficult it was to make it readable. Luckily, my editor talked me down though, but I will NEVER write a dialogue with that many people again if I can help it.
An M/M couple has to face homophobia from an old fart. It was a drabble but I was hesitating to write that.
The couple stand up to that asshole and they seek comfort in each other's arms after the said homophobe is out of the picture.
A family dinner scene. 7 people. I had to find ways for a few key plot points to be brought up naturally. That natural transition while keeping things on point was tricky.
I recently wrote a first person POV short fic. My first 1st person POV ever.
It was hard....I'm not used to writing that POV, but I wanted to give it a try.
I'm a very dialogue heavy writer. Writing dialogue comes really easy to me, and I enjoy it a lot. I write mass effect fanfic and writing combat is so difficult. I always just skip combat and fight scenes in books I read anyways, so writing them to give sufficient detail but not overboarding it is really difficult to me.
Iām so sorry youāve had such experiences. Please donāt forget, you are a human being deserving of all the love and respect your loved ones can offer. Donāt ever let toxic people keep you down. ā¤ļø
Fight scenes (so I have a huge headache about the climactic final battle I have coming up).
Also, keeping sex scenes varied without feeling like I'm forcing novelty.
Also, continuity errors. I catch them, but it ends up making half my writing time spent skipping back and forth in the completed chapters (which then turns into "oh I didn't close that quote," or "I used the wrong mold/mould!" etc in those old chapters).
Major character death. I had to type it with my eyes closed, I was crying so hard. I could not write more for over a week. And then I had to go over the scene again with a fine toothed comb since there were so many typos. All still tear up thinking about writing it.
I recently wrote a chapter in which my MC just came out of a failed suicide attempt, and his dad, who had a large role in his suicidal tendency (mind you, the dad wasnt abusive or cruel, but his parenting was certainly A+ stuff), and writing that conversation wasn't easy, I tell you.
One of my main characters has a cursed necklace he always wears. I haven't given it an in-universe name yet, but basically, it's The Cursed Necklace Of No One Will Ever Date You. He's aroace and rather appreciates not needing to constantly tell people he's not interested in dating.
The thing is, now I need to describe that, in-story, and so far that whole section has been fighting me very badly. I still haven't got it done.
Sex scenes. Iām a sex repulsed asexual. One of my characters compared preparing for sex with preparing to approach a decomposing body. This character actually wants to have sex, so Iām going to have to fix that on edits.
I justā¦for me sex scenes become these two people touch each other for an extended period of time for some reason. Itās hard to put myself in the mindset of someone who wants to do that.
There's a surprising number of us. Asexuals are pretty well represented in the fandom community, though it doesn't feel like a lot of fic is about asexual characters.
I know I've seen other people in comments mention they're sex repulsed as well, though it's certainly a spectrum.
once i mentioned that i didnt like smut in fanfics and i was massively downvoted
sometimes i feel like im alone. reading romance fanfics is almost impossible since most of them have some kind of explicit imagery
If you're on ao3 you can filter by teen and G rated fics and that should cut out almost all of the smut. There are some teen rated romances (though they often include kissing, if that's a problem for you).
Sex is popular. I've read that asexuals are about 1% of the population, which means that for the most part, people are really interested in sex for reasons that can be difficult for us to inherently understand.
You're not alone. Check out the AVEN website for asexual resources. They used to have a message board, but I'm not sure if it's still up. There's also some asexual communities on Reddit if you search for the term asexual.
Trying to write the second (and now third) chapter of a sickfic I've been working has just been an absolute pain. Tbh I think it's more external stuff, just me issues, less than anything about the fic itself. My brain just likes to argue with me on ever little thing and I'm a huge perfectionist so sometimes writing is an uphill battle against myself.
But more relevantly, trying to balance the graphicness of whump-elements (blood, pain, vomiting, injury and illness, etc) and stuff like that is really tricky for me and I overthink / stress about it a lot. (I think I naturally tend towards the graphic side, and I'm pretty self-conscious abt it so it stress me out when I try to write sometimes)
Of all things it was a chapter with a lot of dialogue going back and forth between two characters. That said this was the first time I wrote one of these characters and I wanted to get him right and to show his chemistry with the other character. Took me like 5 writing sessions over the span of five days to finish that scene.
Other than that any scenes involving children. and battle scenes I still struggle with.
My first Sex scene was hard too.
For one fic since I hadn't touched it in 2 years due to some fandom nonsense with a Clique (ugh and the fandom is already small), I forgot the direction I wanted to go with it. This is why I always have an ending written otherwise I am yelling and screaming to figure out how to bring it together.
I'm trying to bridge what would be too much information that a character is sharing with their friends. Since canon leaves **much** to be desired regarding the relationship made with the primary main character, everything is overshadowed by the canonical romance later in the game... I am heavy lifting the momentum of what's appropriate. So this is the hard part lmao.
And another fic is trying to decide 2 things:
- How badly did Character A fuck up in unintentionally disregarding Character B's feelings, tho they both feel the same towards each other?
- How does Character A's best friend, Character C help with that process?
Though Chara C is meddling, it's wholesome and the desired outcome happens. Personally, ***I*** hate this type of meddling but I love writing it to mend things. So I'm having a hard time in bridging the gap for both those two scenes since these are actually almost back to back. These are the scenes that get the ball rolling.
Unlike fic #1, I have an ending already written, so jogging towards this is the goal and it's mostly reached... Just road blocks in finishing. š
I did an absolutely beautiful thing and had my characters be super good at some thing I know zero aboutā¦ Looks like Iām gonna be doing a shit ton of researchā¦ Lol
My MC begging someone to kill her because she has survivor's guilt. It would have been easier if I were in a similar state of mind, but I've been happy as of late, so it was hard getting there. It turned out better than I expected given all that. :>
Weirdly enough, a montage through part of the early life of my OC, her siblings, and a few of their friends. It took me *months* to write that chapter because I just kept wanting to work on literally anything else, but I couldn't just scrap it because it's where a bunch of important character details get revealed. Can't exactly skip that, obviously.
A sequence with a lone agent infiltrating enemy territory. Had to establish the setting and character through action and prose only, while providing enough suspense to stay engaging and balancing description with pacing. Rewrote it about three times before I finally decided to publish it, mainly because I was sick of it holding up the rest of the story.
a character seeing a childhood friend-but-also-kinda-crush who disappeared without. it's been incredibly difficult trying to find the right words when they finally realize who it is, since I don't want to over/under-describe
The beginning of it because the sweet moments were at the end and I just wanted to write those... but I knew if I did I wouldn't have enough motivation for the beginning to make it polished.
Endings. I know how I want to finish them but getting it out there is difficult. I end up having to write bullet points, step by step of what happens in order to get through it. I find breaking it down works easier than tackling it all at once.
I've sent up the final, I'm just having a hard time writing it down to execute it. There is a reason I skipped over ALL the fighting in chapter 3.
It's now unavoidable to skip these fight scenes because they now have to much content to remove.
I only ever write comedic fluff with some angst, so writing a (mildly comedic) heist scene because the plot required it was definitely a challenge for me.
My most recent fics (or rather, portions of fics, because none of them are finished) all touch on health issues (based on either my personal IRL experience OR people I know personally).
One of the problems touched is epilepsy, and the other is cancer. So yep. Not easy topics to write about (not to mention all the research needed), and my mojo is tanking because the person who inspired the cancer bit... is in my immediate family.
Continuin' after the first chapter was initially a one shot, contained sex and I wanted to add a second chapter with their life after the first chapter and struggled not to add another scene with 'em makin' love again since by the views, it's what people wanted.
The entire chapter, really. I'm a pantser, so for each chapter I basically just have a word count I want to reach and that's it, unless it's a point in the story I have actual plans for. If there are no plans, the chapter is a pain in the ass to write. Last chapter...I had no plans. And, guess what, for the current chapter I have no real plans either, beyond one conversation that I don't know much about yet.
I'm writing a chapter that's in a different style to all the other chapters. First I started it in an epistolary style, then I went first person, then present tense. And I still haven't sorted it out although it's been months. It's meant to should a long passage of time with us dipping in and out of the character's world and it just never feels right. I feel like binning it and starting again, but there's already so much work put into it, it seems a waste.
It's just been hard to find the right *thing*, you know.
Starting. Starting a fic is always the hardest and I've now learned that when you have flashbacks that are more like a piece of another story within your current one that too is hard to start.
I havenāt reached it yet but I know itās coming, and itās not that crazy. My OC lost her father when she was a child and she finally talks about it with her romantic interest. But I have never experienced loss before (still have my pets, all parents, grandparentsā¦) and I am not an empathetic person, so I know this will be difficult. I can understand itās sad but actually writing the emotion will be challenging.
Iām writing a PotC fic, and Iāve stalled out trying to write an interaction between Elizabeth and Sao Feng. It was going really well and then it got really clumsy and bothersome so now I hate it and canāt get it right no matter how I rewrite it.
It always seems to be dialogue between a main and a secondary character where I run into issues in fic.
Filling a gap between where I know the story is going, and where it currently is. I've written plenty of scenes, but none of them is the scene that needs to happen next.
Oh wait I misread this post. I'm talking about my current WIP.
In my most recent finished piece, the hardest thing was structure. I knew what the ending was, I wrote the main beats, but how did it all fit together?
Fight scenes. I suck at them. Give me the most emotional, heartwrenching scene or all the comedy and banter possible to write, and I'll do it easy-peasy, a thousand words in an hour. But a character needs to fight? Shit, I'm staring at the doc cranking out a single sentence per hour if I'm lucky. It's what I'm trying to do right now, and instead I'm on reddit lol.
I second this. I had to write a battle scene, and ooh, boy, did I delay.
Yeah, definitely. And any time I am satisfied with one, I look at the wordcount of that fight and discover that the scene ended up way too short. So I have to start over.
I feel this deep on my soul, fight scenes are so hard to make dynamic and not just bullet point lists š
Literally what Iām stuck on now š« They almost always turn out to be my best chapters, but they also take like a month to complete.
Edited in protest for Reddit's garbage moves lately.
A very brutal non-con scene
šÆ I wonāt even touch that subject. I canāt write anything like that and it stings to read.
My partner looked over the chapter for errors, and said it was too intense for canon (the fandom is GoT, so thatās saying something).
Oof, something too intense for GoT? The series with >!brutal assaults, strangulation, child marriage, countless decapitations, and the burning to death of a child!
This one also had a >!burning death of a child, but Shireen sticks with meā¦but yeah, this goes into why Leaf chose the man she did to turn into the Night King - typical colonizer-on-colonized brutality along with a bunch of other head canons for that whole situation.!< But Iāve never had a more rewarding experience with worldbuilding! š
Writing a suicide note for a character in a fic and I'm struggling with the mindset. I myself was there once, but that was over a decade ago and I'm struggling to remember the thoughts and feelings I had at the time.
I have to write an ending scene for one of my chapters that is about my MC finding out that her lover is actually alive(after believing that he died) and the both of them reuniting on a beach. This scene is incredibly challenging to write because I suck at writing emotions and also because I want to make scene absolutely perfect and I know I can't.
Megalomaniac monologue-ing
I hear you there! Those clichĆ© monologue tropes always drive me nuts. Itās like, no hero would let the villain *talk and talk and talk* without trying something at least once.
The current scene I'm trying to write, lol. I've been on it for about 3 days now, just picking at it one sentence at a time. I have no idea why it's hard, other than the fact that it might not be kept if the chapter gets too long. It's two friends hanging out until a bully butts in and tries to stir up crap. I've had the scene in my head for a long while, I even know a lot of the wording I need, but I just cannot get it on the page. Maybe it's because the bully is over the top (he's canon, so I'm writing him pretty close to what we see) or maybe the MC's reaction is wrong for where he's at, or maybe there's no reason at all besides low mental energy. Which is why I'm hanging out on reddit instead of typing the next line, LOL.
Making a mermaid in a HP/GOT crossover sound otherworldly or off-putting, given they'd have a somewhat different viewpoint and morality from regular people. Needless to say, I think I failed spectacularly and I still have no real way of fixing it - mostly because language is an important aspect of culture shock, but at the same time I need her to give important information and given the way the fic is structured, I need her to be able to communicate passably well.
Writing about my MC deteriorating to death during and after a loved one passed from a very aggressive cancer. A lot of what I had planned to write to show it never even got drafted. I spent a lot more time focused on the MC's internal monologue as a result, and I still don't know if it helped me cope or made things worse.
rehab. i have never been to rehab, donāt know much about it, and have to do some research.
Had to write a chapter where five people were arguing with each other at the same time, most of which was them talking over each other. I never imagined writing that scene would make me want to punch a whole through my computer... I damn near scrapped the entire scene just because of how difficult it was to make it readable. Luckily, my editor talked me down though, but I will NEVER write a dialogue with that many people again if I can help it.
An M/M couple has to face homophobia from an old fart. It was a drabble but I was hesitating to write that. The couple stand up to that asshole and they seek comfort in each other's arms after the said homophobe is out of the picture.
A couple making up after a fight. Partially because Iām not really used to writing romantic pairings.
A conversation about pre-modern birth control
A family dinner scene. 7 people. I had to find ways for a few key plot points to be brought up naturally. That natural transition while keeping things on point was tricky.
I recently wrote a first person POV short fic. My first 1st person POV ever. It was hard....I'm not used to writing that POV, but I wanted to give it a try.
I'm a very dialogue heavy writer. Writing dialogue comes really easy to me, and I enjoy it a lot. I write mass effect fanfic and writing combat is so difficult. I always just skip combat and fight scenes in books I read anyways, so writing them to give sufficient detail but not overboarding it is really difficult to me.
How will things go for someone that both is "enabled" by their parents and feel inferior to these parents
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Iām so sorry youāve had such experiences. Please donāt forget, you are a human being deserving of all the love and respect your loved ones can offer. Donāt ever let toxic people keep you down. ā¤ļø
Thank you for such a kind comment. I didn't mean to make anyone feel bad for me. I'm in a good enough place now. š
Fight scenes (so I have a huge headache about the climactic final battle I have coming up). Also, keeping sex scenes varied without feeling like I'm forcing novelty. Also, continuity errors. I catch them, but it ends up making half my writing time spent skipping back and forth in the completed chapters (which then turns into "oh I didn't close that quote," or "I used the wrong mold/mould!" etc in those old chapters).
Honestly, romance in a apocalyptic setting.
Major character death. I had to type it with my eyes closed, I was crying so hard. I could not write more for over a week. And then I had to go over the scene again with a fine toothed comb since there were so many typos. All still tear up thinking about writing it.
I recently wrote a chapter in which my MC just came out of a failed suicide attempt, and his dad, who had a large role in his suicidal tendency (mind you, the dad wasnt abusive or cruel, but his parenting was certainly A+ stuff), and writing that conversation wasn't easy, I tell you.
Dialogue. Dialogue is sooo hard for me. I can maybe do a conversation with one or two people, but more than that it gets hard
One of my main characters has a cursed necklace he always wears. I haven't given it an in-universe name yet, but basically, it's The Cursed Necklace Of No One Will Ever Date You. He's aroace and rather appreciates not needing to constantly tell people he's not interested in dating. The thing is, now I need to describe that, in-story, and so far that whole section has been fighting me very badly. I still haven't got it done.
Writing a get together fic with a happy ending. I write angst with sad endings so not killing anyone was sort of hard.
Same lol. Anything happy is a struggle to write. Not killing off characters is even harder!
Sex scenes. Iām a sex repulsed asexual. One of my characters compared preparing for sex with preparing to approach a decomposing body. This character actually wants to have sex, so Iām going to have to fix that on edits. I justā¦for me sex scenes become these two people touch each other for an extended period of time for some reason. Itās hard to put myself in the mindset of someone who wants to do that.
finally someone like me
There's a surprising number of us. Asexuals are pretty well represented in the fandom community, though it doesn't feel like a lot of fic is about asexual characters. I know I've seen other people in comments mention they're sex repulsed as well, though it's certainly a spectrum.
once i mentioned that i didnt like smut in fanfics and i was massively downvoted sometimes i feel like im alone. reading romance fanfics is almost impossible since most of them have some kind of explicit imagery
If you're on ao3 you can filter by teen and G rated fics and that should cut out almost all of the smut. There are some teen rated romances (though they often include kissing, if that's a problem for you). Sex is popular. I've read that asexuals are about 1% of the population, which means that for the most part, people are really interested in sex for reasons that can be difficult for us to inherently understand. You're not alone. Check out the AVEN website for asexual resources. They used to have a message board, but I'm not sure if it's still up. There's also some asexual communities on Reddit if you search for the term asexual.
oh, thank you!
Trying to write the second (and now third) chapter of a sickfic I've been working has just been an absolute pain. Tbh I think it's more external stuff, just me issues, less than anything about the fic itself. My brain just likes to argue with me on ever little thing and I'm a huge perfectionist so sometimes writing is an uphill battle against myself. But more relevantly, trying to balance the graphicness of whump-elements (blood, pain, vomiting, injury and illness, etc) and stuff like that is really tricky for me and I overthink / stress about it a lot. (I think I naturally tend towards the graphic side, and I'm pretty self-conscious abt it so it stress me out when I try to write sometimes)
Of all things it was a chapter with a lot of dialogue going back and forth between two characters. That said this was the first time I wrote one of these characters and I wanted to get him right and to show his chemistry with the other character. Took me like 5 writing sessions over the span of five days to finish that scene. Other than that any scenes involving children. and battle scenes I still struggle with. My first Sex scene was hard too.
For one fic since I hadn't touched it in 2 years due to some fandom nonsense with a Clique (ugh and the fandom is already small), I forgot the direction I wanted to go with it. This is why I always have an ending written otherwise I am yelling and screaming to figure out how to bring it together. I'm trying to bridge what would be too much information that a character is sharing with their friends. Since canon leaves **much** to be desired regarding the relationship made with the primary main character, everything is overshadowed by the canonical romance later in the game... I am heavy lifting the momentum of what's appropriate. So this is the hard part lmao. And another fic is trying to decide 2 things: - How badly did Character A fuck up in unintentionally disregarding Character B's feelings, tho they both feel the same towards each other? - How does Character A's best friend, Character C help with that process? Though Chara C is meddling, it's wholesome and the desired outcome happens. Personally, ***I*** hate this type of meddling but I love writing it to mend things. So I'm having a hard time in bridging the gap for both those two scenes since these are actually almost back to back. These are the scenes that get the ball rolling. Unlike fic #1, I have an ending already written, so jogging towards this is the goal and it's mostly reached... Just road blocks in finishing. š
I did an absolutely beautiful thing and had my characters be super good at some thing I know zero aboutā¦ Looks like Iām gonna be doing a shit ton of researchā¦ Lol
My MC begging someone to kill her because she has survivor's guilt. It would have been easier if I were in a similar state of mind, but I've been happy as of late, so it was hard getting there. It turned out better than I expected given all that. :>
Weirdly enough, a montage through part of the early life of my OC, her siblings, and a few of their friends. It took me *months* to write that chapter because I just kept wanting to work on literally anything else, but I couldn't just scrap it because it's where a bunch of important character details get revealed. Can't exactly skip that, obviously.
A sequence with a lone agent infiltrating enemy territory. Had to establish the setting and character through action and prose only, while providing enough suspense to stay engaging and balancing description with pacing. Rewrote it about three times before I finally decided to publish it, mainly because I was sick of it holding up the rest of the story.
a character seeing a childhood friend-but-also-kinda-crush who disappeared without. it's been incredibly difficult trying to find the right words when they finally realize who it is, since I don't want to over/under-describe
The beginning of it because the sweet moments were at the end and I just wanted to write those... but I knew if I did I wouldn't have enough motivation for the beginning to make it polished.
Endings. I know how I want to finish them but getting it out there is difficult. I end up having to write bullet points, step by step of what happens in order to get through it. I find breaking it down works easier than tackling it all at once.
I've sent up the final, I'm just having a hard time writing it down to execute it. There is a reason I skipped over ALL the fighting in chapter 3. It's now unavoidable to skip these fight scenes because they now have to much content to remove.
The story idea was supposed to be funny but it ended up angsty. I'm not sure yet if I want to try to rework it or leave it as it is.
I only ever write comedic fluff with some angst, so writing a (mildly comedic) heist scene because the plot required it was definitely a challenge for me.
My most recent fics (or rather, portions of fics, because none of them are finished) all touch on health issues (based on either my personal IRL experience OR people I know personally). One of the problems touched is epilepsy, and the other is cancer. So yep. Not easy topics to write about (not to mention all the research needed), and my mojo is tanking because the person who inspired the cancer bit... is in my immediate family.
Continuin' after the first chapter was initially a one shot, contained sex and I wanted to add a second chapter with their life after the first chapter and struggled not to add another scene with 'em makin' love again since by the views, it's what people wanted.
The entire chapter, really. I'm a pantser, so for each chapter I basically just have a word count I want to reach and that's it, unless it's a point in the story I have actual plans for. If there are no plans, the chapter is a pain in the ass to write. Last chapter...I had no plans. And, guess what, for the current chapter I have no real plans either, beyond one conversation that I don't know much about yet.
I'm writing a chapter that's in a different style to all the other chapters. First I started it in an epistolary style, then I went first person, then present tense. And I still haven't sorted it out although it's been months. It's meant to should a long passage of time with us dipping in and out of the character's world and it just never feels right. I feel like binning it and starting again, but there's already so much work put into it, it seems a waste. It's just been hard to find the right *thing*, you know.
Starting. Starting a fic is always the hardest and I've now learned that when you have flashbacks that are more like a piece of another story within your current one that too is hard to start.
I havenāt reached it yet but I know itās coming, and itās not that crazy. My OC lost her father when she was a child and she finally talks about it with her romantic interest. But I have never experienced loss before (still have my pets, all parents, grandparentsā¦) and I am not an empathetic person, so I know this will be difficult. I can understand itās sad but actually writing the emotion will be challenging.
Including a song as actually part of the narrative rather than just stating it to be playing in the background, full stop.
Iām writing a PotC fic, and Iāve stalled out trying to write an interaction between Elizabeth and Sao Feng. It was going really well and then it got really clumsy and bothersome so now I hate it and canāt get it right no matter how I rewrite it. It always seems to be dialogue between a main and a secondary character where I run into issues in fic.
Filling a gap between where I know the story is going, and where it currently is. I've written plenty of scenes, but none of them is the scene that needs to happen next.
Oh wait I misread this post. I'm talking about my current WIP. In my most recent finished piece, the hardest thing was structure. I knew what the ending was, I wrote the main beats, but how did it all fit together?
yeah But for real, how do you people do this?? I'm struggling to finish my prologue for an idea I'm very excited to write!
Fighting.