Things I Dislike In A Novel

October 30th, 2004 Comments Off

  • Char­ac­ters that are either all good or all evil
  • A story that shows one view­point or group as either all good or all evil
  • Dull or unimag­i­na­tive or overly-cliche verbiage
  • Empha­sis on the mun­dane w/o offer­ing a new viewpoint
  • Too much descrip­tion of any one thing, no mat­ter how artful
  • Flat, life­less, change­less characters
  • Either all-lovable or all-unlovable characters
  • Too much input from the nar­ra­tor if he is not one of the characters
  • Too much predictability
  • Com­plete lack of predictability

This is it for now…still a work in progress.

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