What is your greatest writing weakness /lit/? Mine is over describing

>>8428869
>describing enviroments at all
t. your nigga Dosto

>>8428869
read stoner if you want to find (what i feel to be) a good example of short environment description. williams provides brief but not lacking (succinct i guess) descriptions that dont interrupt the pace and feel vivid in my mind.

on the other hand, try reading lolita. nabokov has humbert go on and on about landscapes and beauty, but the prose is so motherfucking good that you feel invigorated just reading it.

if youve already read those, try going back over passages of them. it really helps me.

>>8428900
Thanks for the recommendation. I will certainly look up Stoner as I have not come across it

My poetry has been criticised as too abstract. I really don't want to give too much away to the reader, but this often leaves people with no clue what I'm talking about.

I suppose I expect to be misunderstood and this exacerbates the situation.

I'm not entirely sure how to solve the problem. Maybe I shouldn't try to cram as much into my poems.

>>8429046
>My poetry has been criticised as too abstract. I really don't want to give too much away to the reader, but this often leaves people with no clue what I'm talking about.
You're writing poetry. This is fine. Take your work to more intelligent people.

>>8429046
I don't write poetry too often, but my understanding is that you wish to describe a feeling in a way that will make others who feel the same connect with the author. I would try and focus on that kind of a reader so you don't have to worry about giving too much "away" to a reader, as they are on the same page as you, if that makes sense?

>>8429046
give us an example fampai

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>>8429048
I suppose joining some poetry societies back in oxford will do the trick

>>8429058
Yeah.. maybe I could try to make my poems more self-contained though

>>8429060
>>8429092
also pic was the worst offender, I think

>>8429159
I think, in this case, they were using abstract as a euphemism.

>>8429176
for what

>>8429159
to me I think you have actually got a little too much stuffed into these two stanzas. You might benefit from letting each image breathe a little

>>8428869
Complete opposite for me. My prose is very 'beige'.

I think I need to read a dictionary to figure out how to describe things in the least bland way possible.

>>8429211
Thanks. I agree.

>>8428890
Do you not, anon?

anything that can result from being to much of a logical literalist
>difficulty make flawed characters/characters that make decisions i consider illogical
>difficulty writing emotion
>difficulty with metaphors and analogies
>difficulty writing intrigue/scheming

if only writing was "tell, don't show" i'd already be part of the western canon ;_;

Describe the environment as your characters interact with it.

>>8429159
>too abstract
no just afraid to use small words

t. used to have the same problem

Not writing, short attention span, easily make excuses for myself. But that's just being a lazy fuck, I know you mean technically. I often get the criticism "it's pretty good but what's the point", meaning it's just a bundle of images and dialogue with no strong thematic ties. Currently doing outlines to try to help fix this.

>>8428890
Dostoiévski messed up big time for not describing environments that frequently.

The only time that he did, he did great. Raskólnikov's room and the city. Look up the book.

>>8428869
Honestly, if you can pull it off, you can use these descriptions as an amazing asset of storytelling.

Specially when you're trying to present the decadence of a place.

>>8428869
Try to create subjective surroundings and not sounding like a purple prose masturbating faggot
tips /lit/aspies?

I let e e cummings creep into my work.