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Love to read [insert genre here]--but can't write it. Anyone else has this problem?

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Kitty27

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I love poetry. I tried to write it.I had delusions of grandeur that I could be like Maya Angelou or Nikki Giovanni. The results were dreadful and I quietly destroyed all evidence.

I like erotica. But when I try to write a love scene that is super explicit,the results turn out to be comical:roll:

I tried to write MG as a writing challenge from a friend. A werewolf showed up and ate the children. I cannot escape my natural inclination towards horror.
 

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I love reading SFF (and it's most of what I read), but I suck at worldbuilding. I haven't given up entirely on writing it yet, cause I keep thinking maybe I will be able to come up with a imaginative and complex SFF world someday.

I can't decide if I should just write what comes more naturally even if it wouldn't appeal as much to my reading tastes, or to keep trying and struggling to write a book that I'd love to read.

Then there's also the fact that I really want to write prose but I've gotten much more favorable critiques on my poems. Ah I honestly don't know what's going on or what to do about the whole what you like reading and want to write doesn't match up with what you write quandary.
 
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I love looking at Impressionist paintings. I never succeed in painting that way, if an example from another art helps.

Being an audience member is a very different thing from being a creator. What we are drawn to make may be very different from our enjoyments.
 
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