Are there stuff you cannot write about?

[Klesta]

Every writer will have their strengths and weaknesses. There are things that everyone among you may find that they struggle writing particular types of characters or particular types of plots.

I know with absolute certainty there are two things I can't write worth two beans about, plot-wise: therapy (on the therapist side) and hostage crises. And maybe dark-siders unless you want a rather idealist kind of dark-sider, much like [member="Darth Veles"] or [member="Darth Ignus"] are.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

therapy (on the therapist side)

Doesn't this make writing your therapist character hard?

 

[Ellie Mors]

I can't write happy. It's always fleeting, and always disappears if I don't keep up with it.

 

[Jsc]

Jedi & Sith.

Jedi because the expectations for a 'good' one are always hit-or-miss. Sith because I find writing villains to be tedious.

 

[Klesta]

[member="Valiens Nantaris"] My therapist character ceased to practice ICly after some patient applied some rather generous applications of beatings and dark-sided Force-powers - this is where I realized that I couldn't write about therapy on the therapist side, so the Mandos are using [member="Rianna Ar'klim-Organa"] for therapy from that point onward.

 

[Veino Garn]

Villains.

For the life of me, I can't manage to get one going. The muse just stops dry.

 

[Jamie Pyne]

I can't write evil characters. I'm too soft of a person to make someone a true monster.

 

[Matsu Ike]

I am terrible at writing dance scenes... much easier to find the dance moves and link them on youtubes.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Klesta"]
Ah OK, not unexpected lol

As for the main question, I struggle writing children.

 

[Jakkor Kess]

For the life of me i cannot seem to write female characters,and non force users.
do not have the muse for that at all.

 

[Fatty]

White knights.

If they aren't a morally ambiguous, and/or a literal or metaphorical monster, and/or a bastard... I don't enjoy them.

Some of my morally ambiguous characters have attempted to go the path of the white knights, but its usually short lived and/or temporary before falling back into old habits. I've had honorable characters, but they were still ruthless killers. I've had a businesswoman whose business is war, so naturally she often ends up on the wrong side of things, and although she renounces "the dark side" and tries to align with the light as much as possible... nut in reality her only real concern is self-improvement, self-profit, and beating the crap out of people against her present interests.

Obviously monsters are monsters, and they are fun as all hell no matter their "alignment"... cuz there are literally things they cannot mentally understand, so absolving them of crime when they do something otherwise absolutely horrendous (maybe?) while at the same time doing whatever it is they think is "good".

In the end, I cannot write a character who has a flaw, that doesn't inherently turn into a selfish/ruthless/cruel/misunderstood bastard(ess). So in effect, my hypothetical White Knight would be a mary/gary sue... which is another thing, I cannot write. Flaws are too interesting not to include.

 

[James Justice]

I cannot write romance

All but one of my characters have been tortured at least once, by someone. I find it impossible to write middle class. All my characters are either flagrantly wealthy or on the wrong side of poor. Its pretty hard for me to write conventional Jedi. The closest I have come is a Taoist Chiss. And children are really hard too, but not impossible for me. Guys with strong ethics, anyone in the "Lawful" section of alignment who adheres to every rule and every law zaps my muse something fast.

 

[Delila Castillon]

Force Users


Which is a bit hilarious, considering from age 13-20ish I had a Jedi character. In retrospect, I didn't write the 'Jedi' part of her very well, so its probably why I shy away from it. That and having magical powers doesn't interest me much.

 

[Jorus Merrill]

I have the worst time writing school days threads - Jedi, Starfleet Academy, or anything Harry Potter- ish or whatever. I can lecture, but I just can't do the kid/student stuff reliably.

 

[Isamu Baelor]

Writing. Period.

My slow posting speed has become a running gag at this point.

 

[Ellie Mors]

I suppose there are some more:

• Prequel-style Jedi.
• Unintelligent people.
• Characters that don't have some kind of manic depression or emotional/mental instability.
• Super-duper-non-fake friendly people. (Genuinely overly friendly people. See: Goody-Two Shoes)
• Characters that don't have at least one existential crisis.

 

[Kenrath]

Jedi.


I can't write Jedi worth a darn. I do much better writing morally/ethically gray to evil characters. That or soldiers but that is mostly due to RL military experience.

 

[Cira]

It isn't so much as what I "can't" write about as much as what "challenges" me and what i "struggle" with.

My struggle and challenge for the longest time had been dark side characters. Darth Isolda was my first successful Darkside character that made it to master, and honestly, I think the only reason I was able to stick it out was that she wasn't a "Sith."

Instead, Isolda was more of an obsessive, fanatical, zealot who wasn't "dark" to be dark -- but more because she was a true believer in the Goddess and whatever path she had to take to fulfill the "Goddess'" ultimate plan. It just so happened that the Goddess was Vahl, who was a representation of the chaotic destruction of the Darkside of the Force xD

 

[Werah Unon]

I really find it hard to write a duel.

Also, I'm really terrible with Jedi characters.

 

[William Kerkov Sr]

I cannot write Force Users, just cannot write them at all. Honestly, after about 4-8 encounters with force-abusers and force junkies, I could not write a jedi, sith, grey jedi, rogue force user, witch, and the so so many different classes of force users (Which is a lot.)

I didn't even try it out until 1 year and 3 months after joining Chaos, playing NFU straight the entire time. I RPed my first Force User for about 7-12 days before I just quit, did not like it, didn't know how to write it, just sucked at it.

That's probably the most imminent thing I cannot write.