Things You’ve Noticed In Your Writing

I've recently been in the habit of writing in 3rd person.
I used to be all about 1st person with rotating points of view,
But I honestly think it's easier to express a character's thoughts or feelings through a totally removed narrator.
It's more subtle and artful, I think. It helps to sophisticate the tone without being too obvious about it.

I write too much dialogue. Well, I don't really think it's too much, but most people tell me they want more narrative. I just find it so easy to write, and I love writing it and it's the one thing that I'm confident in in my stories.

In almost every single one of my stories, drugs are mentioned - that is if they're not the main theme. It's been like that ever since I first started writing and I'm not so sure why. I assume it's just because drugs have so much to do with my real life.

I know this is totatly off subject, but could one of you read my first chapter and tell me if its okay. or comment. Eh, first story lol.

In all of my recent writing, if it's first person, I write everything like they're thoughts. Like, short fragmented sentences to explain what they're feeling or long run ons to elaborate the fact that they're thinking.
I'm not sure if that even made any sense, but... I dunno, most of my writing now is just from the humour in my head, whether I want the story to seem funny or not.

WelcomeToOurWorld:

I know this is totatly off subject, but could one of you read my first chapter and tell me if its okay. or comment. Eh, first story lol.

Please don't spam. I've seen you do this in multiple threads. If you want to pimp your story, you can do it here.

Almost all of my male characters smoke, even if it's mentioned in the fic.
Pot or cigarettes or both.

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When I write anything that takes place in a house, it's always in a house I've been in or lived in.

Dang, I make characters move a lot.

Lately, I've been wanting to write one-shots in the present tense. I've always written in the past, but the last two one-shots I've written have been in the present.

I never really go above ten 'main' characters - by that I mean characters that are around/speak a lot - and I have little to no background characters.
The 'main' characters are usually one or two couples, siblings of one half of the couple, a best friend or two and an antagonist to the couple.
Characters that are meant to be minor often become more major in my fics, I've noticed.
A lot of my stories are based around high school/college too.

^^ I think one-shots are the only thing I ever write in the present tense. Conversely, pretty much every one-shot I've written is in present.

I tend to make my characters boring - even if they have interesting lives or could-be interesting lives, I try to keep the character as close to "normal" as I can.

druscilla-i-am.:

Almost all of my male characters smoke, even if it's mentioned in the fic.
Pot or cigarettes or both.

Smoking is almost always a main theme. Especially in oneshots/drabbles

In Harlow, I can tell what book I was reading when I wrote each little section by how it's written. Choke for the description and the first two parts of the prologue, Along Came A Spider for Evening, Fight Club for the first part of Chapter one, and some-book-a-guy-I-know-wrote for the rest of Chapter One.

I automatically do present tense these days
I liek to write about Dick Grayson
I can't write very well

I tend to go into a stream of consciousness a lot. My character will veer off and describe all of his or her thoughts and feelings before coming back to the point abruply.

I also re-write the last sentence of a story about a hundred times before I decide I like it xD

Reb; 11:17.:

I tend to go into a stream of consciousness a lot. My character will veer off and describe all of his or her thoughts and feelings before coming back to the point abruply.

I do that too. I worry about readers forgetting the original point, to be honest.

I tend to start every sentence with "he" or "she" or "they" when I'm writing romantic scenes.

I don't know how to stop.

waits.:

I tend to start every sentence with "he" or "she" or "they" when I'm writing romantic scenes.

I don't know how to stop.

I used to do that too, not in romantic scenes, but in general. So I started writing the sentence that way (the way that was natural for me at the time) and then changing the order of the words - sometimes placing the verb first and then the subject after, or the description first and then the subject and verb. Or adding description to what started out like as a simple sentence. Anything really to make sure that the sentencing didn't get to monotonous.

waits.:

I tend to start every sentence with "he" or "she" or "they" when I'm writing romantic scenes.

I don't know how to stop.

I'm afraid of getting caught into that when I start writing this story that'll be in third person. I've always written in first before.