forum Things You Want LESS Of In Books

Started January 21, 2019 by @HighPockets group

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Just less edginess for edginess' sake.

^Omg yes please less of this. I can definitely be ok with a little bit of sad stuff, but some writers just seriously need to chill.

The first couple months of Addar.

A Thousand Cranes. The. Entire. Thing. oof

Well yours makes a ton of sense and isn’t there for misery porn.

misery porn.

Yup. What I had in Addar. It sucked.

PLEASE. I AM SICK OF YOU TELLING ME YOU DON'T GET ATTENTION FROM GUYS AND YOU'RE UNCOMFORTABLE. SHOW ME

That confused me for a sec. Then I remembered what this chat was.

That confused me for a sec. Then I remembered what this chat was.

^^^^^

Ooooof, yeah my first thought was, "this sounds a little like a callout post for someone I used to be friends with."

well in a way it's a call out post for my ex best friend but you know, it works for both lol

https://www.notebook.ai/forum/general-chat/guys-you-need-to-spread-this-everywhere-its-important-and-trans-lives-depend-on-it#unread

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Anyway- can we get some protags that actually acknowledge that they're attractive? (Or not attractive and are completely okay with it)

I think ours is just fine with not being considered attractive.

She's cute. :P Although I wasn't talking about her. lol

I know. I just love her though.

Why are there books that describe the main character (who's a girl) and make me think, "this was definitely written by a man, come on," but…it wasn't? Like, it's literally your stereotypical men poorly describing how women see themselves that you find on tumblr or wherever but then ITS A WOMAN WRITING IT??? LADY DO YOU SERIOUSLY DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN THIS WAY????

Okay, that made no sense, sorry

I think she's trying to say, "How the heck did you, A female write, describe a woman so inaccurately"

Tbh i'd do that too
Since for some reason females are hard to write (me being one myself)

Oof yeah, I feel that. But at least I don't still write my female characters' character arcs and stuff dependent on the male characters. Nothing worse than that.

Amen.

Inconsistent timelines anyone?

Or the entire story somehow taking place in under a year when logically it shouldn't