Comments on: Thirteen pet peeves in reading

By: Sasha Tomaszycki

Sasha Tomaszycki — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:00:54 +0000

That’s it! I am going to write the best epic romantic novel featuring Lucian who had a xxx-rated sex scene during a shoot out in the beginning of the book with X’an-j’rul who hoarded their secret baby because they had a big misunderstanding.

I’ll bet you’ll love it

:boff:

By: Anni

Anni — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:43:00 +0000

*taking notes* [img]http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v319/tankexmortis/Smileys/th__artistbloc_by_sml_e.gif[/img]

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:57:02 +0000

LOL – #2 for some reason immediately brought to mind The Pompitous of Love.

And I recently did a partial post on The Big Misunderstanding and how much I really dislike it, too. So with you on that!

By: Linda Winfree

Linda Winfree — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:33:46 +0000

Hmmm.

Never had a hero named Damon or Lucian or any variation of the above.

I have nightmares about #4. It’s my big fear. :chicken:

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:51:05 +0000

lol, well, I’m only one editor. Other editors might hate different things, things I don’t mind at all. Sometimes it truly is about getting your work in front of the right editor.

By: scooper

scooper — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:47:14 +0000

Thanks for telling me what not to do if I submit to Samhain (not that I’d planned on doing them).

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:29:20 +0000

I had to change a Lucian recently to another name. He was French though! Sheesh. (Reminder to self, change name of hero in short I’m working on for Angie, snort)

Oh and Jaci, I bet you people would be all over a romance written in Klingon.

I’m with you on secret babies and random placement sex scenes. I lurve to read sex in romances and I love to write it but I want some context, please.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:47:31 +0000

Secret babies bother me but so does the whole, we had one night of unsafe sex and now I’m pregnant but I can’t tell him because he’d never love me, or it’s not his problem, etc. It almost ruined a book I just read, luckily the rest of the book rocked and I chose to forgive that unneeded plot line.

By: R.G.

R.G. — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:22:03 +0000

These are good things to know. :} {I am guilty of #3-but Never Again! lol}

By: Kate Davies

Kate Davies — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:35:19 +0000

Note to self: Ix-nay on the Ucian-Lay…

Great list, Angie! For myself, I’d add, dialogue that sounds exactly the same from character to character. Nothing will send a book against a wall quicker than having everyone, from the hero to the heroine’s eighty-year-old aunt, talk and think in the same speech patterns (especially if they all have ADD and jump from topic to topic in paragraph-length monologues. All the time.).