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copperbird in write_away

V is for ... Vendetta

Jul 02, 2008 07:59

So, is there anything about writing that you really hate? Authors you can't stand? Reviewers who make your skin crawl? Anything about the whole process that just makes you want to climb back into bed (assuming you left it in the first place) and pull the covers over your head?

This is your chance to rant!

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m_m_m_mother July 2 2008, 10:23:52 UTC

The worst thing is when I've written something but I can't tell if it's any good or not and I have no idea who to ask.

smeddley July 2 2008, 13:08:09 UTC

Recently I've noticed the phrase 'as if' cropping up far too much in books. It gets annoying. Maybe it's because it's so passive? I don't know.

Stephenie Meyer. Alice Sebold.

Harriet Klausner, Amazon's #1 Reviewer. If you want a chuckle and don't mind bleeding out the eyes, go try to read some of her 'reviews'.

mertvyj_gorod July 2 2008, 13:43:52 UTC

I would like to declare screaming jihad against Gary bloody Shteyngart.

dicedork July 2 2008, 14:19:18 UTC

I think everyone is entitled to one freebie: that literary-quality author that they can appreciate is SUPPOSED to be good, that they can analyze and "get," in which they can recognize all the requisite literary elements, but that they personally just can't stand. For me that person is Sylvia Plath. I just fucking hate her. I wanted to rip my own eyes out while reading the Bell Jar.

mentalyoga016 July 2 2008, 15:53:49 UTC

Have you tried the Ariel poems? I feel like so many people are turned off by The Bell Jar that they don't even bother to read her poetry, which is where I feel her real genius was encapsulated. Though I love The Bell Jar, I always felt it was more of a writing exercise than a fully-developed work.

dicedork July 2 2008, 18:54:30 UTC

I have. I still hate her. I can analyze her, appreciate her, even recognize that the writing is very good from a literary sense. And still I hate it.

mentalyoga016 July 3 2008, 03:52:40 UTC

To each their own. Plath is probably my biggest literary passion (I might write my dissertation on her in the future), so I just had to ask. ;)

w1nky July 2 2008, 15:27:20 UTC

I hate Robert Jordan. He is THE example of everything that is WRONG with fantasy fiction today.

And Stephanie Myer. I WANTED to like Twilight. Then the vampire "sparkled"...literally. *sigh*

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w1nky July 2 2008, 17:46:35 UTC

LOL oh my...I had NO idea that he had died.

mistresscara July 7 2008, 22:20:48 UTC

I could never read Robert Jordan either. I tried once but.... ugh. I dunno. His writing bothered me.