Pretty much everything you said. I am really not keen on description. In novels, I'll skip over a lot of it, especially with fantasy authors who go the Tolkien route. Robert Jordan, for example, will spend whole chapters describing new locations and it just puts me to sleep.
When I'm writing, I describe only stuff that I think the character whose POV I'm writing in would notice and I drop in little bits of description throughout the story, a line here and there rather than in big paragraph-long chunks.
Agreed on the first-time stuff, though, especially since I prefer stories that have sex first and love later, rather than having sex be the end goal.
Hmm, what else? Guys acting like hormonal teen girls. I don't know, it's hard to put my finger on it, but a lot of times it's just a general sense I get about a fic, and I can tell in the first few paragraphs that I'm not going to like it. It's just completely and utterly opposite my tastes. Sadly, the majority of slash falls into that category.
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Date: 2005-04-05 12:42 am (UTC)When I'm writing, I describe only stuff that I think the character whose POV I'm writing in would notice and I drop in little bits of description throughout the story, a line here and there rather than in big paragraph-long chunks.
Agreed on the first-time stuff, though, especially since I prefer stories that have sex first and love later, rather than having sex be the end goal.
Hmm, what else? Guys acting like hormonal teen girls. I don't know, it's hard to put my finger on it, but a lot of times it's just a general sense I get about a fic, and I can tell in the first few paragraphs that I'm not going to like it. It's just completely and utterly opposite my tastes. Sadly, the majority of slash falls into that category.