God, I struggle with this. Do you? I use my word processing program thesaurus like crazy trying to vary my words a bit. I have a decent vocabulary but it's still hard for me to come up with the right word at times. When describing setting for example. I'm not naturally good at description. I can see the setting and events vividly in my head but just can't describe them always as I see them. I've gotten better, much better actually. There are days when I really feel like I have it. Yet, there are just as many or more days where I struggle.
The hardest part is how much I have to focus to really find my voice and my creativity. As I've said before here, I primarily write late at night or early in the morning. Late at night, I'm tired. My brain doesn't work as well as it should. I do better in the morning, but I can really only carve out about an hour then.
I just read a blog post by Janice Hardy on describing your setting. She talked about how it can be awkward if you're too flowery with your character's descriptions. She's right, but that makes it even harder in a way. Choose wisely but don't be fake. Don't go crazy with your word choice.
Again, this is an area I really have to work hard on and have a lot still to learn.
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