I have two pet peeves. The first of them is the word peeve. Sound it out. Say it until it loses meaning. It's an ugly, annoying word. Grates at the ear. Lends itself towards the nasal. I'm usually a fan of alliteration and all, but "pet peeve" itself is a real teeth-grinder.
The second is that RPers have all unconsciously adopted the stylistic quirks of late Victorian realists and modernists in their writing styles, at least as far as Strunk and White condensed and repackaged them in that awful style guide, and taken them as givens. No purple prose, be concise, don't tell the other character what yours is thinking in internal monologue, so on. These aren't universal truths of writing; they're culturally and historically-situated literary tastes which have somehow managed to live beyond their purpose for the aesthetic movements which spawned them. The sooner they die, or the sooner they are recognized as tastes and not as fundamentals, the better.
The second is that RPers have all unconsciously adopted the stylistic quirks of late Victorian realists and modernists in their writing styles, at least as far as Strunk and White condensed and repackaged them in that awful style guide, and taken them as givens. No purple prose, be concise, don't tell the other character what yours is thinking in internal monologue, so on. These aren't universal truths of writing; they're culturally and historically-situated literary tastes which have somehow managed to live beyond their purpose for the aesthetic movements which spawned them. The sooner they die, or the sooner they are recognized as tastes and not as fundamentals, the better.
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Current Fate-14 Storyline:Â Merchant, Marine
Current Fate-14 Storyline:Â Merchant, Marine
