Confess your literary sins

[The Master Debater]

Here goes

I wrote a minecraft fanfic and I was awful at writing and it involved a torture fetish.

 

[Ification]

If it wasn't for spell check, I'd be unable to spell some of the more complicated words (Like miscellaneous)

 

[TowinKarz]

For years, I thought the phrase "for all intents and purposes" was really "for all intensive purposes" and wrote it that way.

 

[Enclave Supremacy]

I used to really like Atlas Shrugged.

 

[Sonic Speed Monkey]

I wrote a Jak and Daxter fanfic when I was in college.

 

[AnOminous]

I used to read Piers Anthony.

 

[Cynical]

I used to suck at writing in prose for most of my teenage years.

 

[_blank_]

I once wrote a Perfect Dark fanfic trilogy. Technically there was a fourth part, but the site I was on at that time imploded on itself

Also I held a fanfic/ fanjam series on deviantART for Legend of Zelda characters. Essentially people made their own OCs and they fought in an arena setting, turning in their moveset once a week. I wrote up the narration. People seemed to like it and have been dabbling with the idea of coming back to it, but omitting the LoZ part.

Also, I used to read Dean Koontz. Like, a lot.

And HP Lovecraft as well. Not sure if Lovecraft is a "literary sin" just yet but holy fuck the Lovecraft fanbase is a bunch of tryhards.

 

[Golly]

My first instinct is to use all the commas.

 

[millais]

Apparently I often make the mistake of using split-infinitives.

 

[SpessCaptain]

I still read children's novel series.

 

[EI 903]

My first instinct is to use all the commas.

I do that, too. I pretty much throw in one whenever I have a short mental break, and it means I have to edit the shit out of everything so that it doesn't sound like Christopher Walken and William Shatner having a running conversation.

 

[TowinKarz]

@Hellblazer That, would, be, so awesome, it should, totally, be done!

 

[AnOminous]

I do that, too. I pretty much throw in one whenever I have a short mental break, and it means I have to edit the shit out of everything so that it doesn't sound like Christopher Walken and William Shatner having a running conversation.

I alternately do that and hate commas and think they shouldn't be used when it can be avoided. So I'll sometimes start one of those phrases where you use commas like they're parentheses, then get tired of it in the middle of the phrase and don't bother closing it and just go on to the end of the sentence without another comma even where it theoretically could use one after throwing one subordinate clause after another at the end of the sentence as I keep thinking of ways to qualify what I just said.

 

[XH 502]

Sometimes, I will read a story just for the sex and then lose interest once said sex is over.

(There also seems to exist some kind of unspoken rule that - unless the genre is outright smut - a story shall not have more than that one sex scene. It's bullshit.)

 

[The Master Debater]

I once wrote a Perfect Dark fanfic trilogy. Technically there was a fourth part, but the site I was on at that time imploded on itself

Also I held a fanfic/ fanjam series on deviantART for Legend of Zelda characters. Essentially people made their own OCs and they fought in an arena setting, turning in their moveset once a week. I wrote up the narration. People seemed to like it and have been dabbling with the idea of coming back to it, but omitting the LoZ part.

Also, I used to read Dean Koontz. Like, a lot.

And HP Lovecraft as well. Not sure if Lovecraft is a "literary sin" just yet but holy fuck the Lovecraft fanbase is a bunch of tryhards.

Lovecraft is great but a lot of the fanbase is edgy kids who don't understand it.

Look at Dishonored; it has lovecraftian elements that enhance the otherworldly feeling of the game.

 

[Tailypo]

I use semicolons too often; it gets annoying most of the time.

 

[SpessCaptain]

Sometimes, I will read a story just for the sex and then lose interest once said sex is over.

(There also seems to exist some kind of unspoken rule that - unless the genre is outright smut - a story shall not have more than that one sex scene. It's bullshit.)

I get mad because PWP can mean "Porn with Plot" or "Plot? What Plot?/ Porn without Plot"

Well which one is it?!

 

[XH 502]

I get mad because PWP can mean "Porn with Plot" or "Plot? What Plot?/ Porn without Plot"

Well which one is it?!

This is the single most important thing anyone has ever posted on the Farms.

 

[EI 903]

I get mad because PWP can mean "Porn with Plot" or "Plot? What Plot?/ Porn without Plot"

Well which one is it?!

This is the single most important thing anyone has ever posted on the Farms.

You two perverts need Jesus.