Rrrrrahgh!
Why must my prose suck? There is all this stuff I want to write, right there in my head, a ready-made movie, and it's awesome! But whenever I try to put it into words, I fail miserably. Writing an outline? Fine, no problem, scene-by-scene, if you want. The pacing probably isn't perfect, but I get my point across and am fairly sure it's an interesting story, too. But as soon as I try actual prose? It's horrible! Clumsy and stilted in some places, overly colloquial in others. (And no, writing in German doesn't work any better. Rather the opposite, because written German is nearly always stilted.) I have no idea what to do about this. Fanfic, at least for book-based fandoms, is a little easier, because the canon author's style is usually distinctive enough to pastiche (and boy, am I ever prone to that even when I don't do it on purpose!), and in movies, you usually at least get a vague idea of the characters voices, but in original fic, it's horrible. I wish I knew what to do about it.