Hey, everyone! I hope that you're all doing okay and staying safe out there. Me, it's the same old, same old. Even though I just finished a six-year-old series, that doesn't mean that life's going to stop of change dramatically just like that. I still have lots and lots of stories in my head to put into words.
But speaking of that, I decided to take some time to share with you some of my weaknesses. I reflect a lot on my own writing style, how my writing goes and stuff like that.
You see, one of the biggest challenges for me when I write is building and execution. By building, I mean like building up suspense. When things get suspenseful, I tend to get really impatient to get to the result. Sometimes when I watch a show, I'm like, "Hurry up and give him his just desserts already!" That applies a bit to real life as well. So, naturally, when things go down in my stories, I want to get to the results as fast as possible. I do want to make my stories a little suspenseful, so those parts are either rushed, or take too long. At least to me. I don't know what others think since no one seems to leave comments in my books' Amazon pages anymore.
Another big challenge for me is execution, putting scenes that I want into words. As a writer, the biggest goal I have, other than the usual make money off my stories, is to paint a picture in my readers' heads just as I see them in my own through words, and at moments to leave a big impact. Finding the right words, the right phrasing has always had me dawdling whenever I'm behind the keyboard. It's part of the reason why it sometimes takes me longer than necessary to finish a story.
Since this is my own work, I am biased to think my stories have a power to leave an impact on the reader, and I make every effort to make that bias a reality. But reality is reality. Whether my writing has had any impact or not is something I don't know for certain. And sometimes, when I read back on my work, there's something itching at the back of my mind, that I know is my dissatisfaction with the way a scene or the whole story in general has turned out. I never felt that more strongly than my Dandy Monsters novel, which I was compelled to rewrite after a couple of months published. My other book, Extraterrestrial was also like that, but there's simply nothing I could think of to improve it anymore than I already had before finally publishing it.
And finally, if you've been following my blog for a while now, you must have realized just how imperfect I really as a writer and as a person. Going back to my paragraph about building, I suppose it would be better to call that weakness, impatience. I am also easily distracted with other things like my games and so forth. I can't help but flip back and forth between other tasks, same with stories. I'm working on around four at the same time, focusing on one or two at the moment.
Anyway, that's all I wanted to share with you for now. Thanks for being here as I spill my heart out, kind of. My last weakness: wearing my heart on my sleeve. I'm an introvert, so I can't speak my mind as boldly as most people.
Anyway, stay safe out there. And happy reading!
