The latest edition of A.J. Menden’s Writers Coffee Break Friday:
Plot pet peeves. We all have certain plotlines/subplots that we hate to see in fiction. They can either just irritate or make you stop reading the book. So what are yours?
Here’s just some of the many things people have said:
- Love at first sight
- “Feisty, hot, rebellious magical young women thrust into positions of power at a young age and facing love triangles with the brooding vampire and/or man of her “kind” that she “should” be with”
- People hating each other becoming lovers
- “Lead female characters who constantly say they are tough, badass, and are independent, but the minute a guy comes into the picture they can’t do anything without him”
- Prophecies
- “Anything involving monkeys”
- “We’re a mixed bunch of elves/dwarves/men/etc going on a Quest to Save Our World”
- The Chosen One
- “No women in fiction have leg hair and such, unless it’s used as a plot device”
So what really grinds your gears in fiction?
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