The Hardest Chapter

  • Hopeless Heart

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    I think the hardest is after about the 5th chapter, when the main characters and plot have been introduced
    April 18th, 2011 at 08:45am
  • loveislouder

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    Definitely the first chapter. When I come up with ideas, they're usually in the middle or end, the climax, which is my favorite part, so I have a horrible time leading up to all the action.
    April 24th, 2011 at 04:53am
  • perfect disaster;

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    The middle of the story for me, right before (or during) the climax. Usually I know what's going to happen, I just have the hardest time getting there without rushing things.
    April 25th, 2011 at 04:41am
  • swell

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    The hardest chapter for me is the last chapter, because I want everything to tie up nicely. Or, it's the overly emotional scenes because I'm generally not an emotional person, so for me to tap into that and create a scene for it is hard for me to do.
    May 19th, 2013 at 05:48pm
  • aubs

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    I think that the first and second chapters are the hardest, for me at least. It just seems so difficult for me to begin a story the way that I want to or write down the beginning in my head. As for the second chapter, I want to make it as amazing as the first, which can make it just as difficult.
    May 19th, 2013 at 06:58pm
  • Silent Lamb

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    Everything after the third chapter is usually the most difficult for me, because I feel myself losing control of what I originally wanted and have a hard time pulling it all back together.
    May 19th, 2013 at 07:40pm
  • Zorua

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    The first and last chapters are always the hardest. I mean, I can write the first chapter, it just sucks a lot.

    It's also hard for me to write mushy-gushy romance chapters. I try, but I get too attached to the characters and everything after that goes downhill.
    May 19th, 2013 at 11:20pm
  • Katie Mosing

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    Now I think the hardest chapter is the second one because you have to live up to the expectations of the first one.
    February 15th, 2014 at 06:35pm
  • southpaw

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    My hardest chapter to write is always the first one, because I have a horrible habit at dumping everything on the reader at once, though I'm getting better at not doing that. Facepalm And don't even get me started on the first chapters of sequels! XD
    August 7th, 2014 at 03:50am
  • bye gone

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    The last chapter. For me the beginning is the easiest and then the middle kind of slows but I'm good as long as I have something going on. The ending when the action and everything has finished and I have to figure out how to close out the story. That's the most difficult.
    August 9th, 2014 at 09:58pm
  • n. josten

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    The second chapter, always. The first and last are always the easiest, but the second chapter is always the hardest because you could have an awesome first chapter but a lacking second chapter, and I use the second chapter to decide whether or not I want to stick with the story when I'm reading one so as the writer, I naturally have trouble with the second chapter since the second chapter is always where I find a deal breaker or not in other people's stories.
    September 27th, 2014 at 04:58am
  • Katie Mosing

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    Lately I've been having trouble with the last chapter. I always have an ending in mind, but it never seems grand or wild enough. I think it's tough to write the ending because you've worked so hard on the story and you just want the ending to be perfect.
    October 10th, 2014 at 06:07pm
  • Dom.

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    The hardest chapters for me are always the middle chapters.
    October 11th, 2014 at 08:06am