I'm Pheobe... Maybe...

I'm new with FictionPress, but I've written alot in the past, so I'll probably be putting stuff up pretty regularly as I go through my old word documents.

As far as my writing goes, I have three pet peeves:

1. Similes, metaphors, personification, any literary elements. Don't worry, I get that they are kinda sorta essential to make your writing "interesting", but I hate being required to use them, and being taught that they are the only way to make writing good. I competed in a poetry slam last year where a judge had three pieces of paper: "Similes/Metaphors", "Personification", and "Other", with the contestant's name and tally marks of how many of each they did. My point being: When they fit and don't sound forced they are okay. But most similes are cliche (anything compared with the sun or love or a flower, which is sixty percent of all similes) and metaphors sound weird most of the time. Umm, I'm rambling, but pretty much if it sounds natural, they're fine. But personification for the sake of trying to make the grade, just bugs me.

2. People whose writing is good, but they can't remember punctuation rules. Things that are little, and rather annoying to learn, but make reading easier. Like, when you have quotations, the punctuation goes inside the quotations, not outside, the quotation marks. And yes, you still need punctuation with the sentences, even though they are in quotation marks. Simple things. They distract from the writing.

3. Mary Sues/cliche characters/people I could find in any other fic. Umm, a good example is anyone who slightly resembles any characters in High School Musical (two hours of my life I will never get back). There are a couple really basic ones- The classic good girl who falls for the bad guy, who ends up saving himself and finding a new meaning to his life. The girl who gets raped or something traumatic happens, and so she pretends to be fine and has a mask, and the interested boy ends up looking through her pretenses. Stuff along those lines.

Something I like about FanFiction and FictionPress is that your reviews are supposed to be objective and have constructive criticism. Of course, if something is really, really bad I usually don't bother to review. So if I end up saying something bad about something you write, it's because I care enough to write it. So it's probably a good thing. :)

Well, I just read everything that I wrote, and I sound pretty judgmental, and I'msomuchcoolerthanyou, but that wasn't how I wanted to come across. I'm much too tired to go through and try to sound less bitchy, so oh well. :) Happy writing days!

-Pheobe