What's your biggest challenge in writing a story?

I'm great at doing the first and second chapters, but I find it hard to carry on from there

 

Names! The names of the characters in the story are hard to find!
Names aren't so complicated but the surnames....! Oh....they make my head pain!

 

Mainly Pokémon teams.

 

I have problems just thinking of the plot and what to do next, that kind of stuff

 

I agree. That's what's hard for me.

 

I figure out Pokémon teams by opening a tcg booster pack. It has the potential to be great.

 

To me, the most challenging thing is to stay interested in writing. I always had a provlem with loosing interest in things. I really want to finnish my writing, but I always give myself an excuse for doing something else. I want to make the readers happy, but I cant even keep myself happy.

 

Good idea!!

 

Dedication is my issue. I can't finish anything I start. I'm not sure why. I think it's mostly because I think of new ideas all the time. The old ones don't loose their sparkle, they're just outshone.

 

For me, it's actually getting started on it. Trying to write up a good opening to grab the readers' attention is harder than it looks.

 

My biggest weakness in writing is the spots in between the plot, for exposition and for character development, two things I just happen to love the most out of any literature or film.

 

Same here. I've tried to use a scatterplot planner and dot the journey with conflict, but it doesn't always work.

 

I think my main problem is writing good fights. It just takes me way longer that it honestly should for me to come up with good action sequences in my head, but when I get it down, ohhh god is it satisfying.

 

So I usually have these great ideas of how characters move and act inside my mind, but the problem is that I can't write it the way I want it to. I can't properly describe what a character is doing because I can't find the right word to use. This is why most of my character's lines do this:

"I didn't know that," she said.

"Yeah, sorry for not telling you earlier," Yukari said, smiling.

Yup, I tend to reuse describing words waaaaay often for every character that talks in my stories. I doubt that somebody else has this same problem though.

 

I have trouble writing emotional scenes, like reunions or OTP moments. I get nervous, and I feel like I'm letting my readers down. I feel a lot of you guys on battling too. Any tips on my problem?

 

My biggest weakness... is failing to complete the work after I get the outline out. :'D

And when I don't work with an outline, I do sometimes manage to finish them, but they tend to be sloppier and shorter than otherwise.

 

thank you :') I do have a creative writing assignment coming up so I can use that to motivate myself... along with nanowrimo!

 

What I'm having trouble with right now, in the specific area of Pokémon, is writing battles between low-leveled Pokémon. Trying to write a battle between, say, a Salamence and a Metagross is a lot easier than one between, say, a Rattata and a Bidoof.

Any advice would be appreciated...