What annoys you about writers?

[staropeace]

I can make that happen--lol. One of the ones I'm working on is set in Tennessee AND a restaurant is a primary setting--I'm sure southern fried chicken is coming out of Sweet Sue's kitchen

If you need any culinary research....just ask. I heard you were working on a recipe book called One Hundred Ways to Cook Okra..

 

[skimom2]

If you need any culinary research....just ask. I heard you were working on a recipe book called One Hundred Ways to Cook Okra..

Only fried, darlin', only fried. Okra any other way is slimy (lol).

 

[staropeace]

Only fried, darlin', only fried. Okra any other way is slimy (lol).

I agree. Gimme creamed cauli or turnip though. Unless I wuss in Mississippi, my lips will not touch orka lol.

 

[Mr Nobody]

Some just need to get out of the house so they don't procrastinate by playing on the SKMB...

Also, to be taken seriously by others for what you do.
Say "I'm a writer" and then don't leave the house, and people assume you're just goofing, have a lazy bone where your spine should be, dabbling in a hobby, whatever. It's also taken that you are simply 'at home' and therefore available to whoever wants to drop by, for whatever purpose, there to take in unexpected, unannounced deliveries, and so on.
Say "I'm a writer" and go to an office or room elsewhere every day, you're taken much more seriously because you're seen to have gone to work.
Which is a load of old [shoe-repairers], an outdated attitude and way of looking at the working world, but there it is.
Of course, if you work at/from home and complain that just because you're physically in the house you are not technically at home...that's where the problems can start. And yes, this is mostly a personal experience gripe. The amount of times I've been interrupted and not been able to get back into anything close to the same working mindset and flow is ridiculous, but nothing changes.

 

[muskrat]

Hate when writers use multiple 1st person P.O.V.'s, yet each character's narration sounds exactly the same. Chuck Palahnuik does this a lot...Hell, Chuck does A LOT of stupid crap. Writes the same damn book over and over and over. But then, his books only take about an hour to read, so it evens out, I guess.

 

[Dana Jean]

Hate when writers use multiple 1st person P.O.V.'s, yet each character's narration sounds exactly the same. Chuck Palahnuik does this a lot...Hell, Chuck does A LOT of stupid crap. Writes the same damn book over and over and over. But then, his books only take about an hour to read, so it evens out, I guess.

I've tried to like Chuck, just can't do it.

 

[staropeace]

Only fried, darlin', only fried. Okra any other way is slimy (lol).

Are yah gonna have biscuits and gravy? How bout cheese grits?

 

[PatInTheHat]

Eraser boogers.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Are yah gonna have biscuits and gravy? How bout cheese grits?

Oooh, gravy. I love gravy. And bacon. And Cheese grits.

 

[skimom2]

Are yah gonna have biscuits and gravy? How bout cheese grits?

We were just talking about cheese grits this weekend--lol. So yummy Biscuits and gravy are a Sunday staple in these parts--The Man makes a mean sausage gravy.

 

[skimom2]

I've tried to like Chuck, just can't do it.

Neither do I. Overrated.

 

[staropeace]

We were just talking about cheese grits this weekend--lol. So yummy Biscuits and gravy are a Sunday staple in these parts--The Man makes a mean sausage gravy.

Sounds yummy. You are making me want all things southern. Hey, I think I will make some chicken with beer batter and collared greens(greasy)

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Hate when writers use multiple 1st person P.O.V.'s, yet each character's narration sounds exactly the same. Chuck Palahnuik does this a lot...Hell, Chuck does A LOT of stupid crap. Writes the same damn book over and over and over. But then, his books only take about an hour to read, so it evens out, I guess.

MacDonald has a short "The Willow Pond" multiple 1st pov...All These Condemned, novel, another. MacDonald rocks.
they reckon death a blessing,
yet make of life an anxious joy,
a villa thin with gilded laughter,
all these condemned. (decimus junius juvenalis) He had a rough life, kids making fun on the playground...the first deci junior though...no lucy, alas.

 

[muskrat]

MacDonald has a short "The Willow Pond" multiple 1st pov...All These Condemned, novel, another. MacDonald rocks.
they reckon death a blessing,
yet make of life an anxious joy,
a villa thin with gilded laughter,
all these condemned. (decimus junius juvenalis) He had a rough life, kids making fun on the playground...the first deci junior though...no lucy, alas.

Dang, Coots--you tryin to give me a headache with that lemon yellow script? Hoo...

I guess you can say that annoys me--when writers use bright lemon yellow script, derf derf.

 

[Neesy]

Eraser boogers.

Spoiler: Should I even ask?

what does this mean?

 

[Grandpa]

Spoiler: Should I even ask?

what does this mean?

I think it would mean the little bits of eraser stuff and pencil lead that after left behind from erasing that have to be swept off the paper.

 

[Neesy]

I think it would mean the little bits of eraser stuff and pencil lead that after left behind from erasing that have to be swept off the paper.

Okay -- thought maybe that was what it was - sorry 'bout those juvenile smiley-guys

 

[staropeace]

I hate it when a dying victim is writing a clue in his own blood on the floor. I think writing home to my mother or solving a case would be the last thing on my mind. I would say a quick act of contrition lol.

 

[Ebdim9th]

Maybe... Some say ghosts are 'born' out of unfinished business, desperation to live, or for revenge, or justice....

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Writers who name characters alike should be punished. Very severely punished. And why do their editors not recognize this problem and make them change the names if they are not central to the plot, and in fact detract from the narrative?