Aaaaand...

[roxy]

one more thing before I go to bed!

Dean's gun has IVORY grips, okay--IVORY. *NOT* mother-of pearl. *Sam's* Taurus has mother-of-pearl grips. These two things are totally NOT ALIKE. NOT ALIKE!!!!

Sorry, it's just one of those irritating things, like 'tow the line', or 'make due' or describing Dean as 'the blond'.

Comments

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

'Make due' tops my list. What the hell is that supposed to mean? When they type it and look at it, what the hell are they thinking? Make due. Sheesh. These things, each and every time, they make the fic stutter for me.

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

In one of my college courses, the teacher asked us what we should do to become better writers. Most everyone in the class said, "Write," but I said, "Read," and the teacher pointed at me and said, "Exactly."

I think some of these writers have never read anything but fanfic, so they just keep reading and writing the same mistakes over and over, with no idea of the origin or meaning of the phrases.

And I agree, these errors pull me right out of a fic every time.