Wanna know what really steams my cabbage? Writers who can’t write. I don’t mean the subjective type of “can’t write” — I’m talking honest-to-God cannot write. You know the ones I’m talking about. They generally write noone or eachother or thankyou all like that, as one word. Or they tend to still think A LOT is one word too. And yet… they embarrass themselves by announcing to the world that they are, in fact, writers. Sorry… but… ouchie for them. Let’s see what other things make Ms. Paisley wanna blow a gasket from her “author” brethren….
There’s….
- The pseudo-word “anyways”.
- Headhopping (UGH!)
- Badly tagged dialogue. IE: “You’re drunk!” she hissed! (note, no S’s… so no hissing allowed) or “You’re so silly,” she laughed (um, no… you have to say the line, then give the action, you can’t do both at the same time even though technically, you might think you do it in real life.)
- Reflection descriptions… this is a tricky one, but most times it’s done soooo poorly. For instance: Greta looked at the oversized bear of a man. He’d do, she thought with a mischievous twinkle in her green eyes. Did you see what was wrong there? That’s right… you can’t be in Greta’s head and also have her see her own eyes… ergo no seeing the green color, or that mischievous twinkle. Cut it.
- While I’m thinking about it: the word mischievous. It is NOT mischievious. No such word. Please don’t use it.
- Another pretend word is IRREGARDLESS. Nope. It’s just REGARDLESS — regardless of what you may have thought.
- And while I’m at it, let’s go over IT’S. IT’S is simply a contraction for IT IS. It’s can show ownership — but rarely. More often than not, it’s going to be ITS. IE: The horse limped away, its leg injured.
- the word DEFINITELY… it has NO A in it. Please don’t throw one in there (definately).
Ohh there’s so much more I have to touch on, but I’m afraid that’s all the nitpicking I can do for one entry. More next time, I promise.
Toodles!
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