Pet Writing Peeves

[r3ddawg]

Willing to Buy

Pet peeve?

People who expect perfection on a free website.

Ya gets what ya pay for.

While it is indeed truth One gets what one pays for, I have found without exception that someone who takes care in writing in any venue is well worth the purchase. Poor spelling, bad grammar, and scene inconsistency are My worst peeves.
I have been known to give private comment back to error, to give public critique is of extremely ill-mannered form, beyond rude even.
On a personal note, while having lurked on this site for decades, I fear any prose I may give birth to would be lacking. Therefore, I applaud all who publish, despite error, One can only improve Which on that note screams My lack of publishing being cowardly

Someday...

 

[Handley_Page]

Falter. Oops!

Ah, it wasn't just me then !

My peeves are the problems of dimensions. I really don't like to know that she had a 36FF rack or he boasted a 10 inch cock. That said I have problems with a motor measured in cubic inches (we got our in CCs over here) but that's something I can get my head round eventually.

I'm not over-keen on the author's assumption that only Americans will read it and therefore understand the minutiae of, for example, NFL.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Definitely spelling and grammar. Yes, it's a free concert, but the flip side of that is that authors are being 'paid' by readers,votes and complements - you want my approval, you can pay attention to such.

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

nod
verb

1) Lower and raise one's head slightly and briefly, especially in greeting, assent, or understanding, or to give someone a signal.
‘he looked around for support and everyone nodded’
with object ‘she nodded her head in agreement’

1.1) Signify or express (greeting, assent, or understanding) by nodding.
‘he nodded his consent’

shake one's head

Turn one's head from side to side in order to indicate refusal, denial, disapproval, or incredulity.
‘she shook her head in disbelief’

 

[Oblimo]

You click on a promising title of an erotic online story, only to discover it is narrated in the Second Person.

“Anathema!” you cry, and strike the author’s name from the Book of Life.

Because you’re God, and therefore can only orgasm to the Omniscient Third Person.

 

[KeithD]

My pet peeve is when a reader picks out a small, nitpicky point in a complex story to question, and the peeve is quadrupled when googling easily shows they are wrong anyway.

 

[SimonDoom]

It's funny to see the first thread I started on Literotica -- way back in December 2016 shortly after publishing my first story -- revived after I thought it had long since been dead and buried.

After having been writing stories and participating in these forums and threads for the last 18 months, I'm not sure, had I to do it again, I would start this thread. The phrase "pet peeves" sounds more presumptuous to me than it did then. I've learned something about how much harder writing is than I thought it was then, and if there's one thing I've learned since then it's how much I don't know. I'm pretty sure I know more about writing than I did then, but I know for certain how much more I don't know.

But I suppose it's good to know the thread is still making people think.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I waded through over a thousand fucking pages of The Stand and at the end, King literally had the hand of God reach down from heaven and resolve the plot. I don't think I've ever been more pissed at a book than I was with that one.

More spoilers for those who care:

Since Satan is a major character through much of the book, I guess the appearance of God at the end is acceptable.