Or the other way around: something you like to read, but don’t like to write? (Not that you struggle to write, but hate doing it at all. Even if you are good at it.)

I was pondering this question myself and hadn’t come up with too many answers. Vague ideas, like how I don’t like describing the environment, but I can enjoy a good descriptive passage in someone else’s work. On the other hand, everything I like to write I like to read.

However, I know some people don’t like reading other people’s renditions of certain tropes. I’m interested in hearing about it.

I can’t think of any genres or tropes off the top of my head which count for me, but I know there are some of those too!

  • a_mac_and_con@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    I relate. It is definitely my aphantasia which makes me hate and not want to write physical descriptions. The inability to keep images in my head makes it all less important to me. When I read other people writing it, I appreciate the word choices. It doesn’t make me imagine anything, because I literally can’t. I work in concepts and sounds.

    On the bright side, the world definitely needs writers like you and I as well as those we enjoy but can’t emulate. Not every story needs heavy emotions and not every story needs the room completely described. We fill those niches. :)