ProcessFest Day 4: Challenges

[jjtaylor]

Day 4 of processfest ! Share your creative process.

Today's prompt: Challenges

What do you consider a challenge for you? What is something that's hard for you? What part of your process trips you up? What do you wrestle with? What's always in your notes from your beta? What's the part of your process that makes you throw your hands up and go "This? Again? ARGH!"

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Comments

[ilthit]

Getting distracted. Miscalculating my own energy. The disappointing limits of my own ability - sometimes a thing will just not work out. Lack of trustworthy feedback when I need it. My own sensitivity to good feedback! Lack of follow-through. My own aversion to advertising my stuff once I've made it. Horrifying mistakes that, in retrospect, make me feel like such a fuck-up.

I know I'm not TERRIBLY good at this stuff. I don't concentrate and I don't tend to improve, and I have commitment issues on long projects. The fire only stays for so long and on some points of the process. I would LOVE to finish a novel, learn how to make a beautiful doll mod, create doll clothes as insanely high quality as, say, Hegemony77, work faster and more efficiently, make a better dragon plushie, get better with my colors, learn to knit patterns, make flawless tiny candles. I've just got so much going on that it all remains on the level of dabbling. Let's hope my university studies don't devolve into that.

Also, exposition. In longer original writing, I just don't know how to stop writing clumsy exposition!

[reflectedeve]

A writing challenge, and an art challenge.