My Best Foot Forward

Our topic this week is “What is the easiest part of writing”. That’s a tough one. I’d have to say, the easiest part for me is dialogue. It seems to come easier to me than most of the rest. I hope I’m good at it, since I think it’s my strong suit, LOL.

I actually have the conversation running through my head as I’m typing it. I hear my characters better than I visualize them. I do still visualize them, but it just seems they really like to talk more than anything.

Another thing that I tend to do well, is to just sit down and write the rough draft. I have to plot it all out before I start writing, but once I do that, I can write like fire to get it done. Of course, it really needs a lot of revising, but I’ve got the storyline out there and ready to fix.

I’m not the best at plotting, but I’ve been working on it and I think I’m getting better at it. I have to because if I don’t plot, then I don’t write. And that is definitely not an option.

I think my weakest points are subplots and description. I have to go back in and add description when I’m revising. I do put some in when I write the rough draft, but not near enough. I think I’m improving, but it’s still difficult for me.

I’m not sure about subplots. I’ve been working on that too. One of the WIP’s I’m working on now, I thought I’d added quite a bit of subplot to, but it’s still going to be shorter than I’d hoped. It will be my longest story yet, but not what I was hoping for. I have been getting a little longer with each story, so that’s a good thing. Maybe eventually, I will make it to 100k.

Let me know what your best points are. I’d love to hear about them.