What are your pet peeves when reading/writing/editing?
Sound.
I can’t deal with certain noises when I am
trying to focus on written words, whether I am reading them, writing them, or
editing them. I need to be fully immersed in the story, and when I hear people
talking or music playing, I just can’t focus. It pulls me right out of the
story. Reality slaps me in the face.
Some writers go to café’s to write. I can’t
unless the place is empty and there are no people talking in it. I can maybe
think of one time I wrote in a café.
Other’s put music on while they write. Now, if I
am driving or running, music can help me think of a story, but as a soon as I
actually sit down the write it, the music goes off.
The worst, though, is when I am fully immersed
in a story and then someone walks in to the room and asks me a question. My
brain just shuts down completely. I forget what I am writing, and have not clue
what the person said. We both get frustrated. That person thinks I am ignoring
them. I am mad that I lost my immersion in the story.
The conversation never turns out to be a
pleasant one.
I have other pet peeves, but they have more to do
with the stories themselves. I can’t stand it when dogs and cats die in books.
I drive myself nuts when I catch my self switching tense five times one page. I
hate it when I find myself aimlessly wandering I and stories world without any
direction.
Still, even though these things annoy me, none
are as bad as someone asking me if I fed the cat when I am in the middle of an
epic battle, or worse, a love scene.
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