Challenge
What are your biggest grievances when reading any type of fiction?
Some people hate excessive purple prose others hate chapter titles. I'm curious to see what other writers hate seeing when they're putting down the pen and reading others work
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Neat People
The characters I hate the most in fiction are the really neat people. People so interesting, cool, intelligent, even adorably quirky that they would be the grand prize of any dinner party.
Besides Sherlock Holmes, and the usual cast of others, one character who comes to mind is Campbell Alexander, the really neat guy who's the lawyer in My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
Really neat people don't exist. They have their moments that make them not so neat, but that's left out when selling books.