Things You Want LESS Of In Books

• Villains with no true motives (I'm a bit guilty of this myself, honestly, but ya know)
• Love Interests that would be in prison for harassment and/or abuse if they were real
• Love Interests who do horrible things but it's a-okay because he (and it's 99% of the time a he in this situation) is totes in luv even though it's really lust with her

More things I hate

• Cliffhangers
• When literally everything seems to be forcing the main ship apart ;-;
• When characters die

Of course, these are things that make a book good, but I hate them anyways.

I have a question though. So y’all are over here talking about how resurrecting characters is bad (sorry I’m late by a page or two), and I totally agree.
However, in one of my stories, one of the main catalysts to all of the events is that someone gets brought back to life. This is within the first three chapters, and the rest of the story is brutal. It is made clear that his resurrection was a one-time thing (result of using a magic object that was the only of its kind and breaks after one use), and there’s a pretty clear why.
I’m just curious as to what you all think about resurrection as a plot catalyst as opposed to plot armor. Is it different? Still terrible?

It really depends on the situation. Like Relsey said, not to be confused with fun facts. Sometimes extraneous and boring details are introduced and waste space. One or two here and there are good, but too much? It gets annoying. Would a realistic narrator notice everything about a scene? Probably not, unless they're omniscient. Even then, when sharing cool details becomes info dumping, it can become a mess.

Yup, 100% agree. If I can't see, hear, feel, and smell where the character is, I'm likely to get bored. That's something I'm still working on as a writer, though.

I feel like fun facts and stuff are cool but not when they're the focus and not what's actually happening

Okay I remembered something!
I don't know the name of it, but it's something my dad does a lot when talking to me about a school project, grades, etc. where he'll say something and I'll understand and tell him I get it, but he just keeps going and asking me again/telling me unnecessary details.
So like when an author needs to point out every little detail about something.

Yeah it's 1 thing if it's like say Martha Speaks, where the point is to teach vocabulary to kids, but in random books it's just ugh

Unfortunately you are

• MC = Mary Sue
• Edgy bad boys, with a heart of gold
• MC's romantic relationship with her childhood friend/crush from school/guy she's never seen before, who comes out of nowhere
• Over explaining everything that's happening with the five senses- I agree with ppl above, if it's important to the plot, that's okay. If it isn't, don't do it.
• Mental illness = character. 'Hi, my name is [Generic Character], and I have [mental illness]! This is the only thing that defines me from [Other Generic Character]!'
• 'The [Important Thing] happens only on [celestial event]. Oh what a coincidence! That's tonight!'
• Token diversity, with their race being the only thing important about them.
• Sex coming out of nowhere. Sex without a point to move the plot forward. I don't like sex scenes, but if it moves the story forward or establishes something about a character, okay. If it's just filler, then stop.

^^^I agree. ESPECIALLY the last one!

• Sex coming out of nowhere. Sex without a point to move the plot forward. I don't like sex scenes, but if it moves the story forward or establishes something about a character, okay. If it's just filler, then stop.

Ok so I have to add to this part because of fanfictions. I have read multiple fanfictions in my past time. And well there could be a character that was just raped then like 5 minutes later they are having sex with the other character. It just annoys me.

Or when a character goes through something very traumatic (usually sex related in this case) but has no symptoms of PTSD and 3 pages later is banging the Perfect Love Interest TM. Bonus DoneTM points if he's the one who did it to them.