What annoys you about writers?

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I don't like inconsistencies within a series, or even within a story. And for some reason I don't like revisions.

But the thing that really gets under my skin, and will make me walk away from an author, is sex.
If you have to put a half naked chicky-boo on the cover of your book just so some desperate sap will pick it up, put the typewriter away and go flip burgers. You can't write.
If you have to fill half your book with written porn just to mask the fact that your story SUCKS, then put the typewriter away and go flip burgers.

And if you're a romance writer, please for love of all that is holy PUT THE TYPEWRITER AWAY AND GO FLIP BURGERS!
 
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Connor B

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I absolutely hate it when an author uses their work as a blatant tract for their political or religious convictions. Michael Crichton was good for awhile, but after Jurassic Park, success seemed to have went to his noggin, and he used the clout he had accrued over the years as a license to voice his often controversial opinions. Rising Sun was a bestseller, but was criticized for playing to anti-Japanese corporate paranoia. Disclosure, which explored female-on-male sexual harassment in an office environment, was particularly attacked for its perceived misogyny. Let's not get started on State of Fear. A significant reason why I am drawn to Stephen's work is that, for the most part, he keeps his mouth shut.

I also find film novelizations to be pointless.
 

Connor B

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A lot of them are pretty dysfunctional people. If you think you've got problems, you're in good company.

Sylvia Plath- Clinically depressed for most of her life, culminating in her suicide at the age of thirty.
Ernest Hemingway- A
Bret Easton Ellis- Had a troubled childhood, recreationally used drugs, and to this day remains a self-described misanthrope.
Jim Thompson- A severe alcoholic.
Patricia Highsmith- A brutal, severely depressed, alcoholic misanthrope. Once brought a handbag full of snails and a head of lettuce to a cocktail party, apparently just to mess with people. Essentially the Id personified.
Harlan Ellison- Look up "bitter old man" in the dictionary, you'd probably see this guy.
Edgar Allan Poe- The quintessential "tortured artist".
Mark Twain- If The Mysterious Stranger is anything to go by, his last years on Earth were not very happy.
The Marquis De Sade- Okay, do I REALLY need to go into this one?
 

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too much romance, even not necessary romance especially those i could found in today's YA books (except the romance in Miss peregrines, even though
i found Emma Annoying
the romance fits, and it did not steal the attention of fantasy in the books). AND ESPECIALLY when romance and friendship was so OP (overpowered, what i mean) and . . . minutes later, the antagonist lose

i did not like vampire fictions, but read some, i hate when Vampire fictions was merge in a romance realm *cough* twilight *cough*
 

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A lot of them are pretty dysfunctional people. If you think you've got problems, you're in good company.

Sylvia Plath- Clinically depressed for most of her life, culminating in her suicide at the age of thirty.
Ernest Hemingway- A
Bret Easton Ellis- Had a troubled childhood, recreationally used drugs, and to this day remains a self-described misanthrope.
Jim Thompson- A severe alcoholic.
Patricia Highsmith- A brutal, severely depressed, alcoholic misanthrope. Once brought a handbag full of snails and a head of lettuce to a cocktail party, apparently just to mess with people. Essentially the Id personified.
Harlan Ellison- Look up "bitter old man" in the dictionary, you'd probably see this guy.
Edgar Allan Poe- The quintessential "tortured artist".
Mark Twain- If The Mysterious Stranger is anything to go by, his last years on Earth were not very happy.
The Marquis De Sade- Okay, do I REALLY need to go into this one?
I'm thinking you are going to get some feedback on this last post, Conner B.
Oh, I dunno. Writers don't think like everybody else. Most of them are pretty okay and find a way to function, but I do think a lot might be off-kilter. A little or a lot. The people around me hear about the strangest things that I'm pretty sure don't come up in normal people's conversations. And I've been known to stop in my tracks to look at... anything. A bug, clump of flowers, sky, car. Anything that sparks my imagination. In the course of a few thoughts, I'll guess at the endless possibilities that could involve... whatever and I'll tuck it away for future reference.
I swear, entire universes are born within my fertile grey matter, live out their existences and die several times in a day. It's just a shame that my fingers don't type faster.
 
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ghost19

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THIS. Stephanie Meyer writes so poorly, and she's a millionaire. I know I'm no Stephen King, but DANG. Come on! If she can write like that and sell so much, I should at least be getting somewhere.
I mean no disrespect to Twilight fans. I'm just jealous as all get-out.

Are there still Twilight fans running around out there? Thought we'd rounded all of them up??;)
 

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I hate reading about an obscenely wealthy, beautiful, morally sound protagonist. Something like, Tucker Longwood could have retired comfortably at twenty five on his massive trust fund, but instead he did pro bono detective work for impoverished inner city families and spent his weekends picking up trash from the highway. Although Hannah often begged him to give it all up and go sailing around the world with her, Tucker simply couldn't do it. He needed meaning in his life, something his supermodel girlfriend would never understand.

Oh god, if this character doesn't fall in a wood chipper by the next chapter I'm burning the book. Save yer little wish fullfillment fantasies for the chumps.
 

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I hate reading about an obscenely wealthy, beautiful, morally sound protagonist. Something like, Tucker Longwood could have retired comfortably at twenty five on his massive trust fund, but instead he did pro bono detective work for impoverished inner city families and spent his weekends picking up trash from the highway. Although Hannah often begged him to give it all up and go sailing around the world with her, Tucker simply couldn't do it. He needed meaning in his life, something his supermodel girlfriend would never understand.

Oh god, if this character doesn't fall in a wood chipper by the next chapter I'm burning the book. Save yer little wish fullfillment fantasies for the chumps.
Maybe it would sweeten the pot if Tucker Longwood was a werewolf. Nah...you still might need that wood chipper.