What do you like/dislike in a story?

I am about to start writing my own story soon, so I have been wondering, what do you guys like/dislike in Episode stories? Talk about anything that comes up to your mind, I would like to know!

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LOVE When there is a character development throughout the story. It’s not rushed but gradual. I also love an independent women
HATE I hate the whole “love at first sight” thing

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ikr?? “falling in love at first sight” is so overused and very non-realistic :confused:

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yess, i disagree with love at first sight… ,ion believe that true

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and I LOVE seeing a strong and independent woman, not just sassy and rude but with an actual mentality. we need more of them

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I also hate when the parents are non-existent throughout the story. I get if the parents are not there because you live in a college campus dorm but stories where the character is a teenager makes me so mad. Like they go to parties, meet boys, get into a gang, barely do schoolwork and are somehow smart like what?

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Love, choices, dont need to be big or impactfull I Just want them (looks a clothes choice do not count unleash they give diffrent reactions from people)

Hate. people who say sorry for there bad story, if you think its bad dont publish and instead work some more on it. and first publish when you dont wanna say sorry to people

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I just cackled :sob::sob: but yes I agree, their life EVOLVES around their Ll and getting wasted, I can’t recall the last time I’ve actually seen a mc or anyone at this point studying for that d*mn test

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Very true. I agree with that!!

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Even if it’s bad or not, I would’ve say sorry no matter what in my opinion :man_shrugging:t4:

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as for me, I agree in the point that, if you actually say that in the begging of your story, you are discouraging your readers from reading it. and it’s even more pointless putting it in the end of a chapter, like I wouldn’t even be at the end of the chapter rn if something bothered me. simple ‘I am gonna do my best to improve’ or sth would be much more couraging

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Honestly I wanna say sorry too, I know what I a publish is good, but its the insecurity that it isnt good enough.

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I don’t get why some people feel like they need to give the authors bad negative comments about they story, like the story takes a long time to progress in I understand that cause many people make mistakes just gotta deal with it .

I hate when there are mean girls in the story!! Like why in the world are you coming at the Mc with your little posse just for staring at you for like 5 seconds? Stop harassing the Mc. They’re just trying to live their life.

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yes!! for me, it’s okay if there is some kind of a “mean-ish” person but not a straight up PSYCHO. they’re exaggerating the whole role of the mean girls lol

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or boys who are just as psychotic, either way it’s just disgusting and tiring

i personally am not a fan of those cliche “bad boy good girl” stories, its been done so many times and it gets so much more stereotypical as it goes on •-•

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to be honest i’m a massive fan of the slow burn kinda relationships if there is a romance story - like an enemies to lovers makes my heart go whooooooooooooooooosh but other than that any story can be great as long as the writing is good, the plot is worthwhile, and you try your best! i also love a story that’s not centred around romance but rather some type of mystery or quest or action plot!

i don’t really hate anything per se, but as the other’s have said, the typical ‘love at first sight’ thing is a tad overrated along with the cliche ‘bad boy good girl’ trope.

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Mean girls will always exist which is realistic. What I hate is when the mean girl is completely obsessed with the MC’s love interest and goes as far as trying to spike her drink or getting people to kidnap her. Like, I don’t know any mean girls who are that obsessed with someone. In fact, a lot of mean girls are unbothered and think they’re too good for guys. Unless the mean girl is an actual psychopath and something is wrong with her mentally, I don’t like the mean girl trope where she is overly obsessive over the love interest.

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OMG, that’s so true because I literally make that face when I read those :woman_facepalming: :confused: