Okay, so normally I post "oh cliche" blogs but I decided to give those a break and write a different type of blog. I will be listing a few things that absolutely make my keyboard mash. I don't mean in a cutesy, fan girl type way but a hell-naw-you-better-fix-that-mistake-bish type way. You have no idea how much these things found in writing irk me.

1. Apply stories that are "(name here) counterpart to (boy band here)!"

They are so overdone and none of them seem original and appealing anymore. They're like a diamond that has lost all of its luster. They are no longer fascinating or interesting to apply for because they all end up being the same. Why is it suddenly so cool to make stories about girl groups? Almost every apply story released is about girl groups that are created by this big entertainment company to be the counterpart or female group (which is the same thing) to an already existent boy group?

It is overdone and cliche now.

2. Stories with odd formats for dialogue and thoughts

There is one way to write dialogue and I've seen so many people do it wrong. Writing dialogue really isn't that difficult and it should be one of the easiest things to do in writing. It isn't like grammar where there are exceptions. There are set "rules" for writing dialogue and they are not hard to follow guys! You shouldn't be writing like the bolded text below.

Kwangmin: Where're you going?

Youngmin: I'm going to the store with the hyungs!

You use quotations when you speak. Why the hell are you using that kind of format? I haven't seen it too often and when I do I feel like pulling my hair out of my head because of it. I admit, I used to write like this when I began to write "stories" back in 2008 when I was a noob and needed a lot more schooling in how to write. I've grown out of it and when I go back and see what I typed I feel like tearing it apart so I can put it back together correctly, the way it should be written. 

"Okay, I'll see you later Mom." Hyunseung smiled sweetly to his mother as he went to leave the house to meet up with his friends. "Be home by seven though, we have company coming over for coffee tonight." His mother replied.

When writing dialogue you must space out who talks. When Hyunseung's mother begins to speak, you have to start a new line. I don't understand why to be honest. The idea of spacing out dialogue remains a mystery to me but you should be doing it anyway because otherwise your text looks sloppy and hard to read. I hate struggling to keep up with who is speaking at the moment.

" So, what's for lunch?" Junhyung asked Beast's manager.

Why, why, why, oh why is there a space in between the quotation and the "S"? Firstly, there is no need for a space and more importantly it is wrong. When you see a book published in the modern world that has a space and it can be proven with evidence behind it that it is not a typo that uses it, let me know and I will owe you a big apology. Until then, it is wrong and should not be used under any circumstances.

'I don't get the math homework.' Minwoo sighed.

Never use apostrophes instead of quotations. I've been told that they used to use that back in the day (I don't know which one because there are too many to count) but we no longer use that idea. We now use quotation marks ("") and it should be kept that way. Another thing that I can't stand is when people put punctuation that belongs inside the quotation marks puts it outside where it does not belong. All punctuation should be included between the two quotation marks that are used.

Chansung led all of the 2PM members out onto the patio. Junho looked at the maknae funny. *Why're we out here?* 

Thoughts should not have asterics around them. If you have stories with them, I suggest to either stop using them or go back and edit them out and make your character's thoughts italic. I've been there and attempted to use that type of way to indicate thoughts ("**") and I don't like it. The stories that I used asterics are abanonded stories and will be hard to finish now that I botched up the way stories should be correctly written.

a/n. Your thoughts and dialogue is in red. Jay's is in blue. Junsu's is in purple.

May I ask why you feel the need to put a rainbow into your story? Firstly, this may be confusing to readers who don't read all author's notes. Secondly, it is pointless to do this! What is so special about your characters that they speak with colors for their specific dialogue? Nothing. So, please, do those who can't read our abserd colors a solid and just stick to black. If you feel that the world will end without your colors, make all of the chapters the same color and do not change them. Make sure that they are colors that are easy to see like the ones I listed above.

3. Paragraphs with no spacing whatsoever

In all writing you should have these things called, I dunno, paragraphs. They aren't some form of witchcraft that is hard to acquire. You have to press the enter key and that's it. Even if your story is short, you should not have one clumped up paragraph and call it a day. Most likely, there is several places where you can put a break and create a new paragraph. You have to look for good transition words to make a new paragraph and not to mention look out for when a new person is speaking in your story!

4. Capitalize words at the beginning of sentences and proper nouns!

I don't need an explanation for this. I mean, c'mon, you all should be able to know when and when not to capitalize something in either your paragraph or dialogue. Any word at the beginning of a sentence should be capitalized. Any proper noun should be capitalized as well. 

5. Excessive use of THE CAPS LOCK

When you write, if a character is excited for whatever reason you do not use capital letters because you have this thing called italics. You can bold text but, whatever, that isn't bothersome like the dreaded CAPS lock so I'll leave that subject alone for now. Seriously, it feels overwhelming when authors use their CAPS lock and then just continue on with their story like it was no big deal.

CAPS LOCK LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE SHOUTING AT YOUR READER! Yeah ... just don't do it, alright?

Even worse, titles that are written in all CAPS! Why can't you just write it normally like everyone else, huh, huh, huh? Do you really feel that big of a need to be "different" that you can't just write your title out like people with actual IQ points? That could've taken things too far, but you should be able to catch my drift.

6. Living with idols

This is a plotline that is overused, unreasonable, and illogical. The ending is always predictable as well. Whoever the main character is, always falls in love with one of the idols they live with. Come up with something better if you want to write a good story.

I hate the ones where this girl starts to live with the SuJu guys and she's a minor while the others are like pedo bears compared to her, yet they fall in love with her anyway. Or when you see those stories when you aren't living with one band but, like, some extremely unreasonable number like three.

7. The use of words that are nonexistent or overuse of words

There is one word that I see that does not make sense in the context used!

s

I believe that it is a word but not in the context people wish to use it. You write . You do not write s. That is wrong. Not to mention when you see in stories girls that call older males "Oppa" like it's going out of ing style. Chill, man, you'll still be able to use the term when the next day comes and the one after that and the one after that and ... /bricked

If you can't think of a word or don't know if it is a real word, look it up in the dictionary (there's one online too that you can find!) before you type anything down at all! Spell check is important too. I don't use it too often because I tend to make small typos here and there, but it is always there and I don't think it's going to run away from your computer's software any time soon. So stop being lazy and use it already.

There is more but I feel like this is a good stopping point for now. I promised a friend to make a new rant with her but I went ahead and wrote this anyway to get it off my chest while the ranting mood was still in my system. To make things lighter, I'll give you guys a picture of Junnie.

**Note: It's an HQ image that I sized down & not mine**