Things You Hate to Write

I have a horrible time with anything emotional, which is why I typically don't write romances. Also why I'm horrible with dialogue.

@ Thylacine
I love your story Sky Castle!

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I suck at writing romance when the lovers first meet. I can't seem to get a way for the two to fall in love beleivably.

I also suck at medieval dialogue.

and wit.

I suck at writing scenes where people are arguing or yelling.

@ unapalomayunaflor
Oh same. I feel like when my characters do get into a fight, it's over something stupid and could easily be solved, so when I'm writing it I'm like, 'is this realistic? Does this even make sense? Is this stupid?'

I'm not very good at conveying anger in stories, in general.

- The blood, gore and details I had to write into two of my stories. Dark themes make me feel crappy after writing them.

- A character making one of my main characters feel upset or something. my main characters are my babies and the fact that I have to make someone put them down..

Intense action it always comes off forced to me and I can never get it to play out the way I see it in my head.

Sappy love scenes. Can't do them to save my life.

I hate writing dialogue. Oh my gosh, it absolutely pains me because I get so paranoid that it will sound forced or unnatural. I can write details and descriptions and internal thoughts and anything else for paragraphs on end, but as soon as I try to add in dialogue I just want to crumble.

Physical fight scenes. Something about the arms and the flailing just never comes out right.

Rape stories. I just can't. I don't want to screw it all up and offend somebody. Plus, I don't want that one back story of a brutal rape defining my characters or plot. You can tell me to write about anything else, but rape.

Writing in Present tense. I walk to the store, I say this to so and so. I glare at her in disgust. I prefer telling the story from the past.

The beginning of the freakin story. I sit for a couple minutes and then something pops into my head and I write. Moments later I'm back with a blank page. I hate trying to figure out where to start!

Dialogue. It can go and jump in a hole for all I care.
Also anything humorous, horror-esque or some sort of mystery.

Sex scenes for one. I always feel like they're awkward, so I usually avoid them. I mean my characters can/will/do have sex, but I'm not writing it, it's all implied. I just have a hard time picturing exactly what they'd do, and it ends up super awkward.

Also, important scenes that make the story or a relationship. Anything that causes a major shift in direction is hard for me. Only because I don't ever feel like it's the way I want it. I feel like they need to be weighty and meaningful and I always feel like I fall short on them. Usually that ends up with me writing them over and over and over again (and they usually just get worse, not better).

The starting of a story.. It's just ridiculous how hard it is.. I tend to stress over it so much due to me thinking it's far too boring or no one will want to read it.

Topics I'm far too unfamiliar/uncomfortable with.

Character descriptions.

Filler chapters.

Het smut, I find it boring. Slash all the way, yo

Basically I hate to write anything I would like to read. I don't have the skill or patience to craft amazing chapters with 2,000-5,000 words and tie a solid plot into them. I hate planning most plots. I think that's why I don't actually have stories written... just countless ideas and pieced together drafts of chapters which I will never share with anyone

I hate writing anything to do with drugs. It such a sensitive topic that I don't really have an understanding of, so I don't really feel comfortable writing about it. I would hate to portray something wrong, not just because it would make people angry but because it's a topic I would like to have some respect for considering it affects a lot of people in a negative way.

Any smut scene beyond basic penis-in-vagina intercourse. Even that is pure speculation for me, but that's easy enough to fake. But things like blowjob scenes, etc...nah, man.

Anything sexual.

I feel absolutely nothing which is partially to blame for it.

Overly emotional / romance-y scenes. I'm not a hugely emotional person myself, so I always feel like I epically mess up everything or make it too unbelievable.

I don't really like writing sex scenes, so that's why I tend to involve including smut in 99.9% of my writing. It doesn't help that sometimes I hate reading about it, too, depending on the mood I'm in.

Fight scenes are so hard to do as well, which is why I hate writing them! Fight scenes look so much better on the TV than in writing