[@tanderbolt] I'm inspired to write six-word stories because of Hemmingway. It's actually really fun, to be able to write a quirky story with only so little words (I've been having fun to write a Harry Potter fan fiction using this style). I used to do flash fictions in Chinese, and maybe I should give it a try again, but this time in English.

Really appreciate your suggestions - I'm adding them to my reading list. :D

[@The Harbinger of Ferocity] Aw. Please don't feel that way - it's good that you have a much stronger grasp of the English language than I do (at least, this is how I feel whenever I read your writing). Even if I can understand a multitude of languages... well, as the saying goes: "Jack of all trades, but a master of none". ^^;

Coming back to what this thread is supposedly meant for...

Less about others, but more to myself. Seriously, slang is the hardest part to understand in any language. Worse when I can't tell that my character's dialogue sounds horribly awkward and I have to ask the natives to point them out to me. XD
One way I curb this is to actually read what I've written out aloud to feel whether it sounds weird, but ultimately English is not my native tongue, so there are times when something sounds perfectly fine to me is actually funny and wrong to the natives.