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Originally posted by Zero
My biggest (recent) pet peeves with novels is when all the characters basically talk like the author - I remember reading The Women of Whitechapel Lane (or something like that - and I'm sure someone will correct me) - about Jthe Ripper and even the beggars on the street would engage in these long, introspective, existential dialogues on the meaning of everything - shit man people don't talk like that (unless they've been through an MFA in creative writing).
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Exactly. It is annoying when the characters have no personality of their own and they are just....convenient. I understand it is all from a writer's imagination, but
imagination is the key word. Too many writers can't seem to view things from any perspective but their own and that definitely hurts the story they are trying to tell.