{"id":2434,"date":"2013-02-09T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smoothdraft.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2013-02-09T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:23:06","slug":"writers-biggest-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/writers-biggest-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers\u2019 Biggest Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"triberr_endorsement\"><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-196\" alt=\"1-writer\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.smoothdraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1-writer.jpeg?resize=245%2C205\" width=\"245\" height=\"205\" \/>On the recent giveaway, I asked what each entrant considered his biggest problem. Here&#8217;s a list of the responses, no names attached.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming weeks I&#8217;ll write blog posts to cover these topics and hopefully offer some suggestions to overcome your challenges. <strong>If you didn&#8217;t enter the contest, feel free to comment with your own biggest problem with writing or revising your work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do any of these sound familiar?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My first language isn&#8217;t English.<\/li>\n<li>Creating believable\/interesting conflict<\/li>\n<li>Grammar, punctuation and grammar<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m too close to my own work<\/li>\n<li>Second drafts always end up so much longer than first.<\/li>\n<li>Getting started<\/li>\n<li>Catching the little things that make for great continuity<\/li>\n<li>Being sure I know what my characters want and conveying it well<\/li>\n<li>World building<\/li>\n<li>Repetitive words<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s hard for me to see past what I &#8220;see&#8221; when I&#8217;m writing it and actually edit what I&#8217;ve put down.<\/li>\n<li>I drown in my own details until I get lost.<\/li>\n<li>My grammar, I&#8217;m not an English native speaker, so my grammar is always an issue.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of motivation<\/li>\n<li>The grammar is my biggest problem!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the recent giveaway, I asked what each entrant consi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[518,430,237],"tags":[521,951,916,952,953,954,940,555,911],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-writing-tips","category-smooth-draft","category-writing-tips","tag-biggest-issues","tag-blog","tag-editing","tag-our-writing-tips","tag-questions","tag-revising","tag-smooth-draft","tag-syndicated","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-Dg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}