What are some red flags, pitfalls, or immediate indicators that a story is going to be shit?
What are some red flags, pitfalls, or immediate indicators that a story is going to be shit?
Written by a white male.
lel triggered xd
wrote by a women or a nonwhite!
Written by an American, and I'm completely serious
Red flag: female author
Immediate indicators: asshole narrative voice, unfunny jokes, cliches
Pitfalls: bogging the reader down with description from page 1, uncreative allusions to other popular narratives
That's awfully specific.
If it was written, you just know it'll suck
It's reccomended by Veeky Forums
the first sentence isn't syntactically original. Find me a first sentence to a story/book that is really good that doesn't kick you in the nuts.
Pushing agendas and and explicitly advocating for belief systems/religions. If I catch even a whiff of that shit I'm outie
Call me Ishmael
its about a writer
perfect first sentence. not sure what you mean
>Narrator introduces himself
Wow, how stylish, what a work of genius!
>Implying propaganda can't produce good material
>New York Times Best Seller
t. brainlet
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
*In the beginning when God created the heavens and the Earth.
**Back to the beginning, when God was a beginner.
female or minority author
postmodernist work (im not eptersonfag, i used to hate postmodernism way before him)
***Call me God
Pathetic
Resorting to insults just tells me I've won, friend
I see I've stirred the Moby Dick-rider pot
Literally no edition does that.
if the character emotions are fake
NRSV.
Longer than war and peace
What do you mean by fake?
>has a length limit
It scares me how pathetic some minds can be.
A disgusting non-edition.
The author was born after 1900
>It scares me
Why don't you get over your fears then?
read the fucking whole book, you fucking piece of illiterate cunt.
Main character isn't human
>Book is "written"
>Has a title
>When
>not by a dead person
>cover is too hot
>written by John Green
>"recommended for young adults"
there are good examples, but 99 percent of john green and young adult stories are fucking trash. Now that I'm reading it again, I even see Harry Potter's missed opportunity.