And more specifically,
I have them.
In the words of my English teacher last year: "You are one of the best writers in this class," (*snorts*- yeah right), "but you 'tell' and don't 'show'."
After a few weeks, I started describing everything in sight.
But now my problem is that I don't use enough indirect characterization- the characters tell too much about themselves. They never shut up.
Which is why, I've found, that first person is the best point of view for me to write in. Why? Because I apparently (or so my English teacher put it THIS year) relate to the characters more when I am putting myself in their position.
So, (and this could be why my writing is taking forever) I started writing EVERYTHING in first-person, and then switching it to third person.
And although I think I'm improving a little (read my eariler fanfiction and you'll see), I still think I suck.
-Marty
