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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Two things that I see more in self-pubbed titles than I've seen in Big 5 titles that really ruin my enjoyment of the book:
Characters that have no particular characterization and act merely as interchangeable pawns to move the plot forward.
An author whose narrative is too conversational. If the book is narrated in the first person, that is one thing. If a third person narration is like that, I figure the author doesn't know what s/he is doing.
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I suspect the second one is from people who can tell a good story in person and try to translate that into writing a book.
Writing really is a craft and to be a good writer you need both the talent and the craftsmanship. I vaguely remember reading a "Things you should avoid as a writer" article a number of years ago that mentioned some of this stuff.