Reading preferences
Aug. 10th, 2010 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eretria things in fic that annoy the everyloving shit out of me, whether or not (or maybe even particularly when) the story is otherwise good:
Tense shifts. If you start in present tense, author, STAY in present tense. Don't shift back and forth between past and present. Particularly not in the same damn sentence!
POV switches. I don't care how pretty the character whose POV you're writing from is, if you're describing a scene from his / her POV, STAY in that POV and don't go describing his/her eyes/hands/hair etc. I don't mind POV switched in stories per se. I do, however, mind them a LOT if the happen in the same scene. And switch back and forth in the same scene. Just, no. NO. (I solely blamequiller77 for this obsession with strong POVs. She taught me well. I was a good Padawan.)
Language: Cum. ("Cum for me". Seriously?!) Cunt. Pussy. Just, no. NO. Watch me hit the back button with the speed of light.
The Hunter, The Angel, The Forger, The Architect, The Point Man, The Extractor. The blond/brunette/pink-haired ... you get my drift. Aggravation! Just use the names, writer, please!
This post was brought to you by reading my way through a tiny fraction of the Inception kink meme. So many stories, so much aggravation. (Quite a few absolute gems, too, though.)
Tense shifts. If you start in present tense, author, STAY in present tense. Don't shift back and forth between past and present. Particularly not in the same damn sentence!
POV switches. I don't care how pretty the character whose POV you're writing from is, if you're describing a scene from his / her POV, STAY in that POV and don't go describing his/her eyes/hands/hair etc. I don't mind POV switched in stories per se. I do, however, mind them a LOT if the happen in the same scene. And switch back and forth in the same scene. Just, no. NO. (I solely blame
quiller77 for this obsession with strong POVs. She taught me well. I was a good Padawan.)Language: Cum. ("Cum for me". Seriously?!) Cunt. Pussy. Just, no. NO. Watch me hit the back button with the speed of light.
The Hunter, The Angel, The Forger, The Architect, The Point Man, The Extractor. The blond/brunette/pink-haired ... you get my drift. Aggravation! Just use the names, writer, please!
This post was brought to you by reading my way through a tiny fraction of the Inception kink meme. So many stories, so much aggravation. (Quite a few absolute gems, too, though.)
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Date: 2010-08-11 05:15 pm (UTC)