Okay this is going to be part rant, part advice. I've been toodling around on wattpad reading this and that (sort of whatever catches my eye) and I keep seeing the same things over and OVER.

1) FIRST annoying thing: We know your main character is...well, MAIN. That means they're a special, shiny snowflake already. They do NOT need to have unusual colored eyes, or be absolutely drop-dead beautiful. Can we PLEASE have a *gasp* NORMAL looking main character.

 I just read five stories in a row where the girl has GREEN EYES. That's funny, because green eyes are RARE. So...STOP IT.

2) Okay, so your character HAS to be cool looking, because she's a vampire/werewolf/green space alien. I get it, you gotta do what you gotta do. But here's the thing, if your MC (main character) is totally beautiful, with long raven hair and sparkling silver eyes, and she looks at herself in the mirror and thinks to herself, "Sigh, I'm so ugly/plain/boring looking". I'm going to snort in a rude fashion and stop reading.

3) Which brings me to number three ANNOYING THING. No more mirror descriptions! We are all guilty of this. You're allowed for your first book. The main character looks at herself in the mirror and reflects on her pretty sparkly self and complains that she's ugly. I'll freely admit to doing this to a certain extent in my very first book (Threads). But after that, you don't have a free pass to this mistake anymore. 

4) Your chapter should NOT start with your character waking up in the morning. Start with the ACTION. Start when your story STARTS. Unless your character wakes up because she's being stabbed, I DON'T CARE.

Store the "wake up in the morning to my alarm clock" scene with the "looking in the mirror to describe myself" scene in the "do not ever use again" box.   

5) If your love interest is the traditional "cocky bad boy" and smirks a lot, I will hate him. If he's perfectly perfect in every way (Mary Poppins style) I will hate him. If he treats your MC like crap and it's portrayed as "sexy", I will hate him. Your characters should be like REAL PEOPLE, and that includes your love interest. Do YOU know any guys who are perfect in every way and only have one expression? No. At least, I hope not, because it probably means they're not real people, but robots secretly come to earth to take us over.

6) Do not take short cuts and use U instead of YOU, or type your entire story in text speech. If you're doing it because you're writing on your phone/iipad than STOP and start writing on a computer. If your story is full of garbled words and doesn't make sense, no one is going to read it.

7) Love at first sight. Let's get one thing straight, there is NO love at first sight. There is LUST at first sight, there is ADMIRATION at first sight, but no love. Therefore, WHY is your MC putting her absolute trust in "hot British guy #5" who she JUST met in biology class? WHY is she going home with him? WHY is she not worried when he shows up at her house and acts like a creepy stalker? If you answered "Because he's hot" then YOU'RE FIRED.

That's all the ranting for today :) I assure you there will be more in the future!