Talking About Love
Oct. 11th, 2011 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithNicola Griffith has a cool post on the way her characters talk about love. It includes the observation that she can't stand being in the heads of characters who don't know and speak their own feelings.
Me, I find it entertaining to watch the sparks fly between a character who is emotionally fluent and one who is not. There are other things I strongly dislike, though -- stupidity is a big one for me. Both as a reader and a writer, I hate it when characters do obviously stupid things, or especially, keep making the same mistake over and over again. I also dislike characters who let other people mistreat them and don't do anything about it.
What are some of your literary turn-offs?
Me, I find it entertaining to watch the sparks fly between a character who is emotionally fluent and one who is not. There are other things I strongly dislike, though -- stupidity is a big one for me. Both as a reader and a writer, I hate it when characters do obviously stupid things, or especially, keep making the same mistake over and over again. I also dislike characters who let other people mistreat them and don't do anything about it.
What are some of your literary turn-offs?
