The Guild of Writers Who Never Really Publish or Even Finish Most Anything They Work on, But That's OK Since They Just Love Writing discussion

You know how it feels...you're reading along and all of a sudden you come across that piece of information that YOU know isn't true...the most memorable one for me was regarding the mileage a snowmobile could get on a tank of gas back in the 1980's. There was NO WAY it could have gone that far on one tank. It irritated me so badly that I flung the book across the room. The main reason was that I couldn't believe that one of my favorite and most respected authors would make THAT blunder.

It's that sort of thing...that ONE THING that makes you cringe and even get mad enough to chuck a book against the wall because someone didn't do their homework. Spill it! :)

Formulaic writing.
Place one creepy kid in the book
Add in one bible thump-er to stir up all the trouble
Mix in something that is just wrong (like a double barrel pump shotgun)
Sprinkle in something that makes no sense, with no reason for being there
mix and serve
Basically, 95% of what Stephen King writes

Typos. Grammar errors. Printing errors.
Characters with no character.

ouch! Now I am afraid to post anything :)

Lol this chat isn't a book, so you're good!

Well, I do have character.

I have a similar story. I picked up a scifi book offhand and on the first page it mentioned something completely preposterous (even for a scifi book). Apparently in this future a popular tourist attraction was going to a specific solar system where a gas giant planet had an orbit that literally came close enough to touch the sun until it caught on fire and then continued off on its orbit and it had been doing it for eons. I scoffed so loud because of how many things there was wrong with that and couldn't read any further.

What I also hate most of the time when I come across it in a book is when the good guys are secretly the bad guys and now the main character has to go out on his/her own and defeat them because he/she obviously knows what's best.

Exanimis wrote: "Well, I do have character."

Awesome :)

Leo wrote: "I have a similar story. I picked up a scifi book offhand and on the first page it mentioned something completely preposterous (even for a scifi book). Apparently in this future a popular tourist at..."

Wow that is pretty crazy. It's more like fantasy than sci-fi, or a fantastical sci-fi lol.

It’s when I really discover it’s a book that shifts each chapter years ahead or years ago
I can’t keep up. I do persevere with book and finish but I find it takes more concentration to remember what year chapter is in and less relaxing to read