Random Poll of the Day! (711)

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What annoys or bores you the most in fiction?

Poll runs till October 13th, 2054, 2:25 pm

Too much narration
0
No votes
Too much description
8
44%
Too much exposition
0
No votes
Too much summarization
4
22%
Too much introspection
3
17%
Too much recollection
0
No votes
Too much sensation
1
6%
Too much emotion
0
No votes
Too much action
1
6%
Too much transition
1
6%
 
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I can handle a lot of things, but if all we're getting are monologues from one particular character, particularly one who is depressed/upset/etc., I lose it.
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Hm, I'm not sure. Too much of anything is a bad thing really.

I guess what would happen to annoy me most would be too much action. I say this because a lot of series suffer from "If we don't have enough action, no one will like us!" so instead of story, we get unrealistic fights that last for 5 episodes -_-
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Too much summarization.

It's one thing to summarize unimportant things vs. going on for pages about the color of someone's hair.. but to summarize everything just means that you don't get sucked into the story, because there really isn't a story there.
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Commi-Ninja wrote: I can handle a lot of things, but if all we're getting are monologues from one particular character, particularly one who is depressed/upset/etc., I lose it.
So you hate Catcher in the Rye?
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PhoenixTears wrote: Too much summarization.

It's one thing to summarize unimportant things vs. going on for pages about the color of someone's hair.. but to summarize everything just means that you don't get sucked into the story, because there really isn't a story there.
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aly_angelflight wrote:
PhoenixTears wrote: Too much summarization.

It's one thing to summarize unimportant things vs. going on for pages about the color of someone's hair.. but to summarize everything just means that you don't get sucked into the story, because there really isn't a story there.
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I'll go with description. While I don't doubt the others can ruin things, description's the only one that's ever really drove me crazy.

I don't really need to have a 5 page explanation of what the mice were eating, Brian Jacques.
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GinRei wrote:
Commi-Ninja wrote: I can handle a lot of things, but if all we're getting are monologues from one particular character, particularly one who is depressed/upset/etc., I lose it.
So you hate Catcher in the Rye?
I haven't ever read it.
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Too much description

I just wanna know how plot flows and how charecters interact dammit!
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Too much description. We once had to read a book for school which has about 120 pages of which the first 70 were only description :|
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