This is the first in a series of writing rants. What I'm gonna say is based off a few things I've seen people do, including Think_Insiration's "Zia's Blog of ... um, something!!" xXTheDragonRidersXx's "DR's blog of Writing (...and other things)" Parogar's "Haters Gonna Hate" and a few others.

This is basically going to be a short [yeah right] collection of things I hate as a reader. If any of them apply to you, please try not to take offence. Like I always say, use it as constructive criticism. Build upon it. I know I'm not the greatest writer, and this is not intended to offend, but some of these ... *sigh* You'll see.

If you don't want to continue reading, by all means, you don't have to. This may offend, but every word is true.

Too Little Description

Books that have absolutely no description. *bangs head against desk* URGH! No one wants to read something that has no description. For example:

"I got out of bed and put on clothes. I went downstairs. I had breakfast said goodbye to my parents and went to school. I had math and science and English on the same day. I hate school. When I went home, I cried because I hate my life."

I have seen book start like this. I have seen books with this sort of thing as the first paragraph. Why do people do this? I don't know. But it is so stupid. Any description about a room or the clothes? A family? A whole day went by in six sentences, one paragraph. And they weren't even good sentences. I'm going to write the first two setences again. Only two, becase otherwise it would be too long.

"I blinked slowly, wincing as the suns early morning rays blinded me. I groped around with one hand and wrenched back my covers with little enthusiasm. I sat up and rubbed my face tiredly before swinging my legs around and stretching my back in an arch. I stood on wobbly feet and trapsed across the room to my closet. I pulled back the door and stared at the clothes inside without really registering them. In the end, I numbly pulled on a pair of ratty jeans and an ACDC t-shirt that had once belonged to my older brother."

Better? Thought so. The first one was six sentences that described an entire day including school. The second one was six sentences that described her getting out of bed and getting dressed. You know more from the second one. You can figure out she's not enthusiastic for school and she has a brother. And that's before she even gets downstairs.

Please at least consider adding description so us readers don't damage our computers, phones, iPods or other reading devices by catapulting them across the room.

Too Much Description

This goes the complete opposite way. I remember Think_inspiration mentioning this in her awesome blog, but I'm going to menton it again because its that stupid. When people overdo the description on stuff no one cares about. Let's see if I can give an example.

"I walked into the mall to see my two best friends waiting for me. They squealed and ran over, squeezing me tightly. Josie was wearing a spaghetti strap, pale pink top that hugged her athletic body and a flowery white mini-skirt from Forever 21. Her high heels were sparkly silver and showed off her beige painted toenails that we'd done together on the weekend. Her bouncy blonde hair was curled over her shoulder and pinned back with a gorgeous butterfly clip. Amy was wearing a pair of black, skinny jeans and gauzy white shawl over a dark purple tank top that brang out her bright blue eyes. Her high tops were stunningly white with gold streaks down the sides that glowed in the sunlight. Her brown hair was dyed with purple streaks today, to match her shirt, and tied up in a high ponytail. I was wearing a sleevelss, short, pale blue frock that showed off my long, tanned legs. I wore my lucky necklace that fell to the middle of my chest with a love heart on the end. My hair was black and styled into a messy bun at the base of my neck with a sparkly blue clip holding it in place. I wore simple blue flats that matched the clip and gave me an innocent little girl look."

If you didn't read that and just skipped over it, I don't blame you. Do you know how physically hard it was to write that? My head hurts from banging it against my desk. [By the way, I have no idea whether Forever 21 is a real store. I've seen it in a few books, so I assumed. Please no hate, I'm not American.] Some books are like this. I lierally skip over any big text that describes how pepole look. Especially if its written as one huge paragraph. If you write like this, please don't be offended if you ask me to read and I don't. This is literally a nightmare!! Don't. Do It.

If your followers enjoy pointless rants about clothes they don't have but wish they did; by all means, go ahead. But for the rest of us; we don't care. So please think about not doing this, if you want the attention of a lot more readers. 

End of rant.