What is more challenging for you as a writer?

I think writing articles is the most challenging for me because I usually get sidetracked and find myself writing off in tangents. So I will usually write something then read it a few days later to edit it.

Fiction is hard because I have trouble creating characters that are interesting and dynamic. I can create or think of stories but it's hard to form people in my head.

Writing articles. I need to find research from reliable sources, then structure the article in a logical way that moves from point to point. Writing fiction is so much easier for me.

I have been writing articles since 8 years. It takes few hours to write an article, including research and related reading. I love to do non-fiction stories.

One hour interview session with the subject and another hour to write, the story is complete. I've started a novel but I'm finding it difficult to complete even after 4 years. I think writing fictions is challenging.

Having said that I find marketing my works more challenging.

I would like very much to become a better writer to create fiction for children. I've done a few, but when I read the work of other writers, I realize my stories are not all that great. I must say I have done three that I am proud of.

I'd like to take a course in creative writing.

Fiction is the area I find most challenging and could use the most improvement. Creative non-fiction is my strength. Usually, when I write fiction, little nuggets of true life experiences find their way in in some way.

Maybe it's like that for all fiction writers?

Ideas keep coming to me but the challenge is to bring clarity in my message while writing. What is the use of writing something when you leave the reader all confused ;) thus, be able to convey the message in simple terms is a BIG challenge.

At first I thought that creating fiction would be harder, because I'm not that imainative. But, I've done it several times; letting one's imagination run wild has a freeing effect. Non-fiction requires reporting of facts, but very often, UNDERSTANDING of those facts MUST be included before you can weave a story out of it and convey what you'd like to convey.So, in answer to your question, I find non-fiction more difficult.

The writing articles is what I do after I collect the non-fiction fact. I weave them into a story that the read would like.

Cardisa...I would also have to agree with Doc Snow...anything paying would be good. The biggest challenge for me seems to be completing "useful" and "knowledgeable" articles that seemed to get Google-ed by millions of people. I tend to turn them into creative writing exercises that get Google-ed by nine people...by accident usually.

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Non fiction stories because you really do have to work thrice as hard to make sure your facts are rock solid. Articles tend to write themselves. Fiction can be semi-based on reality and mostly this is the case.

The great banquets in the Harry Potter novels, for example, make the most sense when you realize that the writer when she was putting together the first book was not living well. She was on the poverty line and food was an issue. When I make up a town nowadays, and its to be in a locale I am not that familiar with, I will do a google search to make sure a town with that name doesn't really exist anywhere in or near that locale.

The biggest challenge for me is making up my mind about the subject matter. Having begun a 'chain' of articles - fiction or non-fiction - I take it in turns to drive the chain further. The process of choosing which of the chains to drive is almost like tossing a coin!

I have to be selective, and I have to be fair to the 'audience'. There might be some following the Hunding saga, others the railway model-making, and yet more awaiting another travel item... That reminds me! Only joking - although this has set me thinking about another speciality travel piece.It's about time.

Other than that I've got to put in some more pages on the 'RAVENFEAST' saga series; 'OUTCAST: Storm in the Kingdom' needs some more work doing. Marshalling research is a task in itself, and channelling the subject matter in rotation - still, the beauty of these Hub pages is being able to go back and tidy up the copy or make it more readable. That's it!

Sad to say, the challenge is to make any of the above pay.

My biggest challenge is finding the time. With a family, one of who is a 3 year old, and two jobs, finding time to write is sometimes fleeting.

Right now I am writing about my experiences and doing a few recipes. Writing articles is something I would like to try. Trying to figure out hubpages and how to make money at this is taking up a lot of time.

I'm with Doc Snow. You can write your guts out, but making anything pay is the trick. Fictional is hardest for me.Lily.

I agree with several of the hubbers who have provided answers, especially Doc Snow...making any of them pay. But also, for me, somedays is just simply beginning. Like most writers, I have no shortage of ideas but sitting down and beginning when so many things are pulling for my time.

And I do have to say that writing fiction is a challenge.....it is going on in my head beautifully but when I sit to write it never quite hit the paper the same....lol.

Creating fiction. I have no idea how to be creative in articles. Mine are all based on fact and information.

I love reading creative articles and fiction and admire those who can make the stories come alive.

That's some question Cardisa, and for me there is only one truthful answer I must share: To be able to find and sit in that ultimate writing venue, that place where I am one with myself and in harmony with everything that's around. Since I have concluded and I am quite sure that writing is my life, and also my future in this life. It is of maximum importance to be in the very best environment for my chosen career.

If writing is your promised land, it should also be in that ultimate environment, because in this world in which we live, to most people success is measured in $$$$. Where as to you the writer, it may be quite different. I hope it is .

So there are quite a lot of unfriendly environment that could be quite distracting and disturbing. I am pretty close to that destination, where I can summon the best that's in me, and I am sure it's there . I know so!

Thanks for that question Cardisa, it made me think little harder, of that which I know I must find real soon.Bless.

I need to focus more. I want to write and be better than I am. I feel like my writing doesn't compare with all these writers that are so much better than I am.

I want to write more about child abuse maybe to help people to be more aware.

Making money while writing..the stomach needs fulfillment just like the soul :P.

I work from home and oftentimes, it is hard to stay focused instead of getting up and doing things around the house, etc. I am an "early bird" so I usually get up around 5 a.m. And I find that is my most productive time. I have my little ritual of lighting a few candles, I light some nag champa incense and get myself a cup of tea.

This helps me to get into the creative mode! One of my other challenges is the fact that I am a perfectionist. Rather than to continue writing my rough draft, I will go back to edit over and over again to "get it right".

This is not only time consuming, but counter productive as well...maybe I have a touch of A.D.D.?!

To write something that inspires and not just informs.

Writing some better than what i've already written. Cause rite now I can't thing of any thing better than what I have already wrote.

I don't have a lot of trouble creating fiction; I do have a difficult time coming up with a plot line to engage the reader throughout the story and then crafting a strong ending. Poetry comes to me most easily. Also, I find that writing articles and non-fiction stories are "writer-friendly," since there already is a base, the facts, on which to build.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.