Soon, as in the next few months, I’m going to try to actually finish most of my short story WIPs and try to make decent headway on my novel as well. All of the rest is unfinished because I get so many ideas that I can’t keep up and then jump around in order to salvage the ideas onto paper so that I don’t forget them. I think that’s one of my biggest weaknesses, is that I have only finished a few things in my life. I’m hoping to get better at it, especially as I work more on my thriller novel, because there is a lot of important dialogue that’s supposed to happen in that WIP. It’s always clunky, and slow, and it doesn’t sound natural.

I’m not good at dialogue. I don’t know why, maybe it’s because I’m more introverted than I am extroverted, but I really don’t write realistic dialogue.

I am too, but I think my confidence and my desire to be out there overcome the fear.

I feel like that is a strength because a lot of writers are afraid to submit their work. I’ve only done that a few times, and the first time a poem got published while the others are yet to be answered. Being outgoing with my work. I feel like I haven’t been afraid to show my work to people, especially to send it out to publishers.I feel like I am strong at developing plots and that’s something that helps me be carried through on my various projects. It’s better to just see the plot and not have it clouded up and hidden by my writing that may not be good (which can be distracting to me). I like to outline as it reminds me that my stories are good.

That is something I believe I am very good at and I have naturally learned how to create descriptions of scenes, scents, and sounds that invoke powerful images in readers’ minds. Writing is about self-development and growing in skill just as much as it is about producing good, quality work. Hey All! I wanted to take some time to discuss my strengths and weaknesses in writing and I encourage you to look at your own life to see skills that you have developed as well as things you could work on.

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