#Literally. Swatting at the author with a broom. Get OUT of here

[scarletfasinera]

Worst thing a writer of a book can make me deal with is talk to me like I'm an idiot who can't understand books while I'm actively reading the book they wrote

#txt #Me having to set the book I'm reading down and remind myself that YA fiction is literally just written this way #as if it's a style and isn't out-of-this-world levels of fucking annoying and condescending #The author has to always be present in the text but not in the fun way. In the hand-holding so you don't get lost way. #Not only does it suck but it's a huge pet peeve for me personally which makes it worse than anything else a writer can put me through #Worst thing for someone who hates being treated like he's stupid is to read a book in which the writer thinks their readers are all stupid #Which again. I understand is just how 99% of YA fiction is written and that's my fault for reading it. But come on. #Sometimes I come across a book where it's particularly egregious and it makes me mad. #Like leave some room for your readers to have at least average intelligence. Coddling us just feels patronizing #It's fucking annoying. Let me figure things out. You don't have to explain the symbolism immediately after the symbolism. #You do not have to TLDR in parenthesis what just happened in the text as if I'm too stupid to understand it. #Literally. Swatting at the author with a broom. Get OUT of here #(as a guy who is incapable of “separating art from the artist” and must be aware of the artist at all times #this is still an extremely annoying way for the “artist”/writer to interact with their audience through the text.) #Any writer who writes their entire book while pbviously believing that their audience are a bunch of idiots. HUGE pet peeve #Drives me fucking insane