Don't you hate it when ...

[Astrotrain]

I've got a few chapters to go in my story, I had to go on a break because of a health crisis, and now I can't seem to get started again. I feel like I have to finish this story though, I owe it to the readers.

 

[FifthEstate]

You briefly mentioned a minor character earlier in a story you were working on a few weeks ago. You are ready to pick up where you left off and you can't remember the character's name and have to reread the whole thing to find the reference.

I write mostly series, often with long time gaps between. This happens in every new chapter with most male (usually husbands) characters I write. But strangely I could wake up at 3 in the morning and recite the names of all of my female MC’s including their hair color and approximate measurements.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

all of my female MC’s including their hair color and approximate measurements

34C of course.

 

[FifthEstate]

34C of course.

Glad you recollect our previous banter…either that or you’ve been reading my stories again!

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Glad you recollect our previous banter…either that or you’ve been reading my stories again!

You couldn't get that whole post of 15 words right in just one go? It took an hour of editing? I mean I'm usually one to fuss over my edits but srsly??

 

[Lifestyle66]

DYHIW you're on a roll, with the perfect scene in mind and writing the perfect story with the greatest dialog ... and your spouse shouts "GET OFF THAT COMPUTER and help me with this!!!"

 

[pink_silk_glove]

you need a word for the sound that a man's dress shoe makes when he walks across a wooden floor.

cuck-cuck-cuck ...

 

[FifthEstate]

You couldn't get that whole post of 15 words right in just one go? It took an hour of editing? I mean I'm usually one to fuss over my edits but srsly??

Yeah, I guess I’m just not very good at this whole writing thing.

 

[KeithD]

Yeah, I guess I’m just not very good at this whole writing thing.

You're not alone. I'll still be correcting and adding to posts a half hour after the original posting. I think it's an editor's "thing."

 

[FifthEstate]

You're not alone. I'll still be correcting and adding to posts a half hour after the original posting. I think it's an editor's "thing."

At least it only takes you a half hour Keith. According to Pink_Wet_Watchdog it took me a full hour to make one minor edit…lol.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

At least it only takes you a half hour Keith. According to Pink_Wet_Watchdog it took me a full hour to make one minor edit…lol.

Just stop, please. You guys are making me paranoid. Now I want to go back through all my old posts and make sure I sound literate, or at least coherent.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Just stop, please. You guys are making me paranoid. Now I want to go back through all my old posts and make sure I sound literate, or at least coherent.

Your old posts are amazing, concentrate on the future!

 

[LisaMayTurner]

When you can't write, at least write proper words and not acronyms to express your inner self.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Your old posts are amazing, concentrate on the future!

Thanks. I was kidding.

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

You've got the whole day free, with no expectations put upon you, and no distractions, BUT you just don't feel like fucking writing?

Add your own DYHIW where it pertains to writing.

This has happened to me too many times.

 

[StillStunned]

DYHIW you have a whole evening before you, just for writing, but suddenly it's past midnight and all you've done is post nonsense in the AH.

 

[SmokingFap]

you need a word for the sound that a man's dress shoe makes when he walks across a wooden floor.
clop clop? He's not a horse.
tap tap tap? He isn't dancing.
click clack? He's not a chicken on a typewriter.
Damnit. Help!

Just make it so he wears very dressy slippers.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

you need a word for the sound that a man's dress shoe makes when he walks across a wooden floor.
clop clop? He's not a horse.
tap tap tap? He isn't dancing.
click clack? He's not a chicken on a typewriter.
Damnit. Help!

The distinctive footfalls of a man on a mission echoed from the hardwood...

Let the reader's imagination fill in the blanks

 

[SmokingFap]

Don't you hate it when you can't think of exactly the right word and you can't find that... you know, your book thingy with all of the words and other words that mean the same thing?

Why can't I remember what that book thingy is called?

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

ThisRus.

Oooh, well done. Very well done.

 

[Fatdog25]

DYHIW when you're stuck at a scene change, your characters need to go to dinner, there's supposed to be a minor plot twist, so you decide to take a break and listen to a little music to let your subconscious figure it out...

Now it's two months later, you have eight new story ideas you're working on and no fucking idea where the original story is going yet...except that it involves a 1973 Mercury Montego, moonshiners, and the Witness Protection Program.

Sometimes, I hate my brain and my muse.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Anonymous leaves a scathing comment noting things that make it obvious they didn't read the entire story.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Anonymous leaves a scathing comment noting things that make it obvious they didn't read the entire story.

“Passer pour un idiot aux yeux d’un imbécile est une volupte de fin gourmet.” Georges Courteline
or
Being seen as an idiot in the eyes of an imbecile is a pleasure of the finest order.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

You re-read a story you wrote for the umpteenth time and all the same spots make you cry - again...

Savage Daughter

 

[WhiteTailDarkTip]

You have a brilliant idea for a segment but there's no way that you can twist the rest of the narrative to allow it