So after a day of almost continuous Gram…

So after a day of almost continuous Gram Staneing I feal that I am (finaly) semi competent at performing this test, Hooray! I am however frustrated by streak plastering ability! Whenever I perform this test The result is generally a few isolated colonies predominated by large lines of indefinable colonies that cannot be isolated. Is the result as you can imagine does not look good and is a pain to deal with. Is there anything that I can do to deal with this frustrating issue?