Least favourite part about drawing/writing?

My least favorite part of writing is probably self-inflicted: going back and changing everything. I don't do too much planning before I wrote (even for my original novel), and I'm 25K words in when I suddenly get an idea that's even better, but it doesn't fit in with the rest of the story. I hate retconning, so the only thing left to do is go back and rewrite the whole thing. If I did more planning, this wouldn't happen, but I get my best ideas in the moment.

 

The least favourite thing is how much time it takes, easily - never mind my limited repertoire of drawing skills. This is why I don't draw, but rather just stick to signatures.

On top of my being able to draw only a handful of things fairly decently, my works rarely tend to be something from scratch; I draw bits and pieces from other things I've seen and put them together into a cohesive whole that way. And every time I have drawn something with pencil and paper, it takes me 3 hours from start to finish - 2 hours if I'm lucky and it's simple enough. While that may not seem like much to some, it's a big deal for me, given how that's easily triple the time it takes for me to make a signature.

If I want to actually draw something, I'm going to have a lot of extremely good reasons for wanting to do so; otherwise it doesn't happen.
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When I'm drawing, I hate coloring and shading because sometimes I feel like I'm gonna mess up the entire thing with the wrong colors. I really hate drawing hands and feet too; it just doesn't always work for me. I used to the drawing the eyes since I could never get them both the same, but that's not really an issue anymore.

As for writing, I hate when I have too many ideas in my head that relate to something a lot later on in the story and I don't really know how to get to it. I also hate when I'm in the middle of writing a story, and I get an idea for something else

 

I FEEL YOU I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM!! I KEEP ON GETTING INSPIRED BY OTHER FAN FICTIONS AND I CREATE A STORY BASED AROUND IT!!

It's the same for me, as I have this ongoing fan fic I really should update, but I put up a contest because I wanted to see what my readers will create, but no one has done that. I REALLY DON'T HAVE IDEAS HOW TO CONTINUE IT! And Pokémon stories? The insanity in my head.

 

For drawing, perspective is really difficult for me. Like how closer objects are supposed to look larger than objects further away. It's especially bad with character posing since it just makes them look lopsided half of the time with one hand bigger than the other or something to that degree. I've watched tutorials and taken lots of art classes, but for some reason that in particular is the bane of my existence.

For writing I guess there are two things; not being able to write fast enough to keep up with the ideas in my head and proof reading once it's finally done. I'll just go over the same scene over and over again in my head until I finish writing it and half of the time I end up with writer's block once that scene's finally finished because I hadn't thought ahead enough. Proof reading sort of speaks for itself. Just going back and rereading everything you already wrote and half of the time I know what I wanted to write so I'll miss the errors anyway.

Edit: Actually I just thought of another one for drawing. Nothing to do with the drawing itself, but the hand cramps. I've been working on something all day and I'm starting to feel it.

 

I don't draw since I actually don't like drawing, but I do write a lot. My least favorite thing is transitions. I always seem to struggle with smooth story flow, and it's why I stopped writing one of my larger stories. I can't figure out how to get from point A to point B.

 

I can definitely agree with that. For an original story I'm writing, I've been stuck for months trying to think of how to get to the next scene.

 

An annoying part in writing is reading back through my past chapters, realizing that my style has changed quite a lot with the recent chapters. It just makes me want to revise the older chapters, which isn't a bad thing, but it just takes up my time. Another annoying part is trying to describe how a character acts after talking.

The most annoying, however, is getting so many ideas for future chapters that are like, tens of chapters away, then suddenly forgetting about the ideas once you reach said chapter.

 

This is a legit problem that I have. It is also a nice problem, because it shows I am still developing.

 

For drawing. I despair when I have to draw poses. I can't ever get them right.

For writing, I hate it when I've got a good idea in my head but I can't write it out, and when I'm unable to continue a story for whatever reason. I have so many incomplete projects that I've lost count