- Cliches
- Cool factor
- archaic narrative / dialog
- similar sentence length
- Absurd and unreasoned names you can't even pronounce
- Writing what you don't know about
- Describing simply
- Distracting tags and adverbs
- "very"
- head-hopping (keep it to one POV per scene)
- White Room Syndrome
- Switching tenses
- Passive voice (was, is, to be - followed by -ing verbs)
- Breaking the rules you set for your story
- Waking up scenes
- Unimportant transportation
- Unimportant dialog
Be sure to...
- make sure people interact with the rules
- keep characters IN character (don't let them live your fantasy or be/do what they never would)
- give your characters flaws
- make sure painful things hurt (continuity)
- RESPOND!
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