The final boss of Yea Forums: 25 Mistakes that Peg You as an Amateur Writer

youtube.com/watch?v=ZPHjb0MqX9g

She seems to scare the shit out of all of you. Yea Forums has finally met its match. She would rip you all to pieces with your flaws, failures to meet publication standards and literary convention. You are puny to her. And you just can't measure up.

How do I know? She was my editor once. And I still haven't recovered for how thoroughly she ripped apart my ms.

x. She likes very few books, maybe one out of a hundred fifty clients.
x. She has personally placed those books with the big five and let them through for meeting her impossible standards.
x. Her schedule is completely packed. If she reads your book and trashes it, she's doing you a huge favor.
x. Her standards are so high editors and publishers fight to be the first to hear about her best clients.
x. She is a stone cold soulless psychopath who will see you as dirt unless you meet standards and conventions of the publishing world.
x. She is right. About everything. Although her notes castrated me, they fixed everything in my book. I even should give her a cowriting credit. But I'd rather not risk offending master by messaging her at all after the pegging I took.

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isn't it incedible how capitalism works?
the industry used to rely on the whims of writers. now they've got a singularly empowered and informed consultant who can funnel them marketable books without any confusion.
death to the writer, truly

>W-r-i-t-e l-i-k-e a m-a-c-h-i-n-e

No thanks, I'll savor my flaws

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What qualifies her to give this advice? Though to be fair, I've watched as far as 5 and so far they're all so obvious that you're not just an amateur writer if you make these mistakes, you're also stupid. The first mistake is spelling characters' names consistently, for crying out loud.

When does the pegging start?

>actually watch video
>it's pretty standard advice; nohing controversial or political
this is fine. why are we made about this?

Also, good writers aren't good because they're checking mistakes off a list, they're good because they read and write enough to naturally avoid these mistakes. If you give your book to an editor and they're asking you to make major changes, you haven't been reading enough.

put it on 2x and transcribed this shit

1. different spellings for the same words
2. too similar character names
3. mistakes in professions' procedures
4. mistakes in details of medicine, technology, etc
5. small talk in dialogue that doesn't add anything
6. forgetting to include sensory information
7. naming the main character after yourself
8. overuse of cliches, especially on the first page
9. overuse of the same sentence construction
10. switched between past and present tense unintentionally
11. pausing the story every time a character is introduced to give a lot of physical descriptions
12. overuse of alternative dialog tags
13. using more than one adjective to describe a noun
14. using more words than is necessary
15. thesaurus writing
16. constantly repeating the character's name
17. constantly repeating characters's names in dialog
18. constantly repeating the same descriptions
19. switch the point of view character at random
20. including mundane details for no reason
21. describing every article of clothing every character wears
22. using an adverb + a verb instead of just a stronger verb
23. overly formal dialog
24. introducing too many characters at the same time
25. writing stage direction instead of action

pretty basic advise

dostoevsky btfo

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