Oh, my lord, YES! And especially annoying if these instances occur at the start of a story, where there is no reason to hide the character's name from the reader.
Oh, right. I didn't know that. Well, contact a Mod and I'm sure they can release the lock long enough to allow you to edit the mistake. (Or maybe when you're no longer new, the edit button will reappear, like magic, on your old posts. )
Posted with advance warning for explicit description of teh buttsex: https://slarmstrong.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/the-fluttering-anus/
Haha... that was a fun read. Quiver, clench, and twist for sure... but flutter? Flutter means to fly at its root, though my World Encarta dictionary does equate it with quiver around the sixth or seventh definition. So I suppose that might be technically correct but I've always preferred "wink" in this context. New thread: what are the most annoying/ridiculous/hilarious/cringe-worthy sexual adjectives?
I had to be gently coached out of using the word "turgid" to describe an erection. Kill your darlings, y'all...
I think something that really ruffles my jimmies, is reading a BDSM Erotica that shows just how much the author has no bloody clue about how BDSM really works. How the hell do you turn a fun and exciting and intimate thing, into a torture porn? If you don't have a clue as to what it is or how it works, please don't screw it up by making it look evil and scary because of your ineptitude to do some hard research first.
When I left, we were discussing editing threads. I return and we're discussing flapping buttholes? What a difference two days make!
Pet peeves: Syrupy, lisping writing that reads like someone's British grandmother reading a bedtime story. I just can't make it through any of the Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings because of this. Telegraphing an upcoming plot point in the most obvious way possible. Being dropped into the middle of a story with a complex world and being given no information about it. Leckie's Ancillary books were almost unreadable because of this. "Super" children that never have to answer to adults. How many YA books would have only been a chapter long if an adult with a belt and some common sense was around?
This particular pet peeve would probably not stand out to me, but only because it is a staple of Legalese. I'm a legal translator and I see it all the time and it has a very specific formula. The defendant broke {fill in the corresponding law}, to wit, the defendant engaged in {fill in the series of acts}. For me: Endless similes. Commit to a flipping metaphor once in a while. Let something be, not be like. Stop mincing and wincing away from your imagery. The "overly present narrator". Can take lots of forms, from overt narrative intrusion that clearly isn't intended, to R.R. Martin's cloying narrative voice that sounds exactly like one of the characters in his A Song of Ice and Fire books, but the books are not written in 1st person, so there's no reason for this "SCA" / "Renaissance Fair" narrative voice.
truth. i like to re-read books, and when i see plot devices, personality traits, etc, that don't line up with what the author wrote two books later, it bothers me. it doesn't have to be something big; it could be that an arbitrary neighbor character went from being a jerk to being helpful and friendly without any explanation. it just tells me that the author didn't care enough about the consistency of the little details, and if he/she didn't care about that then what else could they have skimped on?
With great power comes great responsibility...for the writer One of my pet peeves is when a writer gives a character a nifty skill, power, or ability and then doesn't have them use it at what would seem to be the most logical time without explanation. If Bob can fly I can only take so much of him running around before my suspended disbelief is grounded as well and I lose interest. And this!
My big pet peeve is when the book constantly stops to tell you "this isn't your normal story" or "if this were a normal stories, this would have happened." Get off your high horse! Just tell the damn story. Even in books I like (like Name of the Wind) it is still obnoxious.
Mine would be: Spelling and Grammer mistakes from authors who know better A sub plot that leads to no where Something happening for the point of drama Characters who do dumb things for dumb reasons even if someone points it out
Ha, yes! People doing something dumb is also a pet peeve of mine. Particularly when it comes to heroically sacrificing oneself, even if you could have found a better solution if you just had switched your mind on. I like the cunning guy who doesn't risk his life more than the heroic dumbass.
