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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
It's even better when you're reading an author like Cormac McCarthy who can't be bothered to use quotation marks!  |
Oh, don't get me started about McCarthy.
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Originally Posted by mrscoach
When you realize someone responded to another person talking, but both comments are on the SAME LINE, nevermind the same paragraph. Then realizing at least one whole page is like that. I don't remember the book or what the plot was supposed to be because I wasn't going to try to decipher their fifth grade writing. I DNF'd that quickly and deleted it. I read enough bad writing when I have to grade papers.
Or, another I remember, a writer always put who was doing the talking at the first of a paragraph. Why was that bad, you might ask? Because after some confusion because of wrong pronouns, I realized the writer really meant the speaker at the first of a paragraph was the one who spoke in the previous paragraph.
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I hope you rated both of those very, very lowly. We see that not "often," but too often, at my shop. No beats, no dialogue tags, no quotation marks (grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr........) no this, no nuthin'. I wish I had the income to say "for the love of Ch***t, please, go take a damned writing course!" It's infuriating and exhausting to watch.
Moreover, I kinda hate taking money from people whose books obviously will never sell, but I'm not rich enough (ha, ha ha, "rich enough," there's a phrase that doesn't apply to me in any way) to be noble and turn them down, telling them that. (sigh).
Hitch