I will never read your story if…

[JohnSm123]

...anything disgusts me. And I'm disgusted easily, especially by people licking fingers.

 

[Bramblethorn]

WRITTEN conversation.

See update to my post. Obviously spoken examples are a little harder to search on, but there are plenty out there.

 

[Britva415]

...anything disgusts me. And I'm disgusted easily, especially by people licking fingers.

banned

 

[JohnSm123]

banned

Huh?

 

[Britva415]

Huh?

Just fuckin' with ya, based on your other thread.

 

[JohnSm123]

Just fuckin' with ya, based on your other thread.

What exasperates me is that you'll have no consequences for that, whereas I'm doomed to be banned.

 

[nice90sguy]

I have very eyes, before which startling events have sometimes occurred. Sometimes even under them.

 

[Codoc24]

As long as we're talking about the word "very". It is considered by some that the word "very" should not be used at all. Just saying. I am not a grammar snob at all. I know I struggle with grammar a lot. See link below.


https://www.writerswrite.co.za/45-w...id peppering their,writing or a speech longer.

 

[Bazzle]

Brianna characters always get my goat...no idea why.
I always think the author must be called Brian!

 

[alohadave]

You have a point. Kids these days don't even know why we "hang up" the phone. The expressions are all antiquated now. Like literary skeuomorphs

There's a joke floating around that a 2010s teenager saw a 3.5" floppy disc IRL and said, "oh cool, someone 3D printed the Save icon."

 

[alohadave]

I wish my TV remote was on a cord.

My mom's parents had a remote that operated on sound. When you pressed a button, it struck a tuning fork that was tuned to frequencies that the TV could hear. They were supposed to be ultrasonic, but my mom could hear the the tones.

This style of remote is where 'clicker' comes from because the switches made a loud clicking sound.

 

[djrip]

My mom's parents had a remote that operated on sound. When you pressed a button, it struck a tuning fork that was tuned to frequencies that the TV could hear. They were supposed to be ultrasonic, but my mom could hear the the tones.

This style of remote is where 'clicker' comes from because the switches made a loud clicking sound.

So if you were good maybe you could whistle the TV to the next channel.

 

[Athalia]

Now I thought the "rule" was never to sleep with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger anywhere on her body.
It goes along with never eating what you can't pronounce and never gambling with someone whose name includes the name of a state or city.

The original quote:
“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”
― Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Honestly, not to step on any toes, but I normally don't want to read stories which affirm that they are "true." If you have even glanced at the categories I write in, you would understand immediately why I would be disinterested in a "true" story, even if calling it "true" is only part of the fictional storytelling.

I read stories outside my own genres of course, but even then, real life comes with a huge amount of unpleasant baggage, and I read/write for escapism.

If you want to write "true" sex stories, be my guest... But I probably won't read it.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

It's not a total deal-breaker, but names of characters suggesting they're current late-teens, strippers, or random nouns, puts me off. Maddysyn, Cody and Taylor; Brandi, Candi and Myke; Clay, Case, Lane and Sky.

The last lot are particularly annoying because it's unclear what sex the people are. I may be happy either way, but I want to be convinced the author knows what they're doing - and often I'm left to figure it out by some action that may not be by the same person who spoke in the paragraph.

One paragraph, one person acting, please - unless it's really carefully done. Actually, being careless about who pronouns refer to, and resulting in confusing actions, is probably my main peeve. It just happens to go along with plodding prose and the kinds of names above, most of the time.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

This demonstrates that people, despite what they may say or even think about themselves, are driven by fashions and trends. There was a upsurge in in Tiffanys for a while. (Or is it Tiffani?) Meanwhile, there probably have been few baby girls named Myrtle, Gertrude, or Bertha since about 1945 or so.

If I met some 20-30 something year old woman in the year 2023 named Gertrude; I'd laugh in her face and hope she doesn't get polio, or something.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Poo on you, Sir!

L'ventia is a fantastic name for an unknowable demigoddess, and you can get lost in a Reese's if you disagree!

L'ventia sounds like some chick in my apartment complex with three kids and four baby daddies, and no job.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I don't think I've ever seen an author say they don't also read.

I read... just rarely on here. I've read more fanfiction than anything else, the past four or so years. I am on two sites where I have read nothing on there at all. I don't think the amount of stories I've read here even add up to my tenure here.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

I was going to skip this, but how does that explain the actress Brooklyn Decker, who was born in Ohio in 1987? At that time the borough of Brooklyn was mostly not that hip except for a few select locations. Still waiting for a woman named Hoboken or Secaucus.

Names become trendy, like Dakota, Brooklyn or Aspen. Doesn't mean they were conceived there, it's just that their parents thought it would be cute to stick their kid with a place name - or even worse, something like Apple.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I catch myself writing hang up, and have to switch it to "ended the call"

I still write "hung up", I don't even think about it because everybody still uses the term. Even some cell phones use or used it.

 

[alohadave]

I don't think I've ever seen an author say they don't also read.

Go over to /r/writing on reddit and you'll see it constantly. It's a cliche at this point in the sub.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

L'ventia sounds like some chick in my apartment complex with three kids and four baby daddies, and no job.

L'ventia is described as "a creature of lust" so that kind of aligns with the women you're describing, doesn't it?

 

[gunhilltrain]

If I met some 20-30 something year old woman in the year 2023 named Gertrude; I'd laugh in her face and hope she doesn't get polio, or something.

Why would her name have anything to go with her getting polio? I think you have to be kidding us.

 

[gunhilltrain]

L'ventia sounds like some chick in my apartment complex with three kids and four baby daddies, and no job.

It sounds like the name a corporation that changed its name to sound more - memorable, hip? Like if Yellow Trucking ever comes out bankruptcy, they would rename themselves something like L'ventia Transportation Solutions.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Why would her name have anything to go with her getting polio? I think you have to be kidding us.

Because the name was popular in the early 1900's when polio was prevailent for the masses. It's called a joke. Imagine it's about forty or so years from now, and the name is some popular name from now, I'd have made the same joke, but with covid.