Crappy plot development, uninteresting characters, bad grammar. inexcusably inaccurate technical details, sentences that end in prepositions, lame efforts to fob off politics onto the reader. The list goes on.

If it ain't got that Zing~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

It wasn't writers writing so much, though it does seem like there's some sloppy stuff out there. It's more on the internet when we all interact online using our grammar and spelling and such. We just seem to be sloppy "listeners" or readers or something online. For example, someone could say, like I just did, "just venting" and then follow up with the vent. Now both you guys obviously read and pay attention. You see that statement and know I'm just venting. I'm not trying to solve anything, I just want to get it out of my system. Yet, there will be others who just read the vent, don't see the "Just Venting" at the beginning and suddenly either I'm in trouble for calling everyone illbred and uneducated, or they're trying to solve the problem.

Make any sense?

I'm not nearly so irritated about it now, because now I'm on vacation and typing this to you in the middle of the night from my dad's computer. But at the time, it just really bugged me. Seemed it might be something other writers would get. And you did.

Thanks!