forum Things You Want LESS Of In Books

Started January 21, 2019 by @HighPockets group

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I think they mean in detail, If you're writing about a road trip just don't focus completely on what's going on on the road.

Yeah, I had an explanation typed and then I accidentally refreshed and it got deleted. I mean when they talk about what the character is doing or noticing and it seems like that when you're watching but once you start driving or go to drivers ed or something, you can tell that's not what they were doing or thinking about. Like, a character shouldn't be exhausted and be daydreaming about their boyfriend and listening to music and maybe be tipsy and still be able to drive properly

Also jynnie aren't you learning to drive rn? (Not trying to sound rude, just trying to put together pieces)

No, I'm not taking driver's ed until I'm 18.

Oh I daydream all the time while driving. Once you get used to it (driving for a few years) you can certainly multitask while driving.

Seems important

I’ve seen it and love it.

Poor Alpaca man

How does he not think someone would want an alpaca?!

The real question is why someone wouldn't want an alpaca?

Fussy landlords

I want a llama so I can train it to spit on the people I don't like

^This is what we should be thinking about for New Years.

dang it, I've been laughing for a minute straight, send help

Wait I just realized that means you can rent an alpaca (duh how did I not realize that) and I wanna know what people do with them

…..I cuddled with one and talked to it about life as a human. It was life changing. (I may or may not have been super high)
It as my friends 30th bday and that shit was wild

Gonna lean towards 'may' on that one….

salutes

Salutes back

There are very few benefits to living here in the middle of absolutely nowhere, but one of those few benefits is the fact that two of my neighbors own alpacas and yes, I get to pet them at the annual alpaca show

A beautiful story that should be told to all.

The 'bury your gays' trope. It's just blegh.

Killing off the gay characters gets pretty annoying when you keep seeing it all over the place.
i'd like to see a wedding or smth every now and then, or at least let them live smh

Yeah. Like, it's one thing to kill a gay character if you have a cast that's almost, if not all, LGBTQA+, but if you kill off the only gay character then it's just poor writing.

You can get away with killing off a gay character if it absolutely furthers the plot and the gay part is smth u dont notice right away or is mentioned at the end, but when gay characters specifically are killed off, then it's just offensive to the lgbtq
At least kill a group with one gay dude in it, so it counts as group casualty personally im not in or support lgbt, but im ok with them overall, so killing them off specifically is kinda bad tbh