{{THIS IS NOT A DIARY HQ}}

[Piefan]

/very thinly veiled bump

Any pet peeves in diaries? I, personally, find it frustrating when people just kind of look at their perfectly decent post, then decide they need to sound smarter. Natural conclusion: Get a thesaurus. That isn't always bad, of course, but sometimes it just sounds forced. For instance:

"After I consumed my collation, I viewed a farcical motion picture." vs

"After I ate my meal, I watched a hilarious movie."

It's a diary, guys. Unless it's a character trait that the writer looks into a thesaurus every two seconds, that isn't natural. Sometimes we can have stuff like "I totally failed my spelling lol. But you know what? I don't even care. Yesterday I patronised a carouse."

[pinkgeneguy]

I WOULD LIKE MY WORK IN THE LIBRARY!
Username: wolfiegirl8679
Title:This isn't a diary, this is a Flower
Link:Here ya go!
Is it part of a series?: No
If yes, what are the sequels (and the links to those too, please)?
Short Pitch: (something to persuade people to read your story in 180 characters (CHARACTERS, not words, this includes letters, punctuation, and spaces) or less) Alex is a dog that enjoys writing and decided to write in a diary Flower! Alex has been categorized by the populars along with myriads of others. Alex has friends that stand up for her but will all that work out in the end?
Illustration (optional. Could be a banner, a picture of your main character, anything):

[Polar Kitten]

/very thinly veiled bump

Any pet peeves in diaries? I, personally, find it frustrating when people just kind of look at their perfectly decent post, then decide they need to sound smarter. Natural conclusion: Get a thesaurus. That isn't always bad, of course, but sometimes it just sounds forced. For instance:

"After I consumed my collation, I viewed a farcical motion picture." vs

"After I ate my meal, I watched a hilarious movie."

It's a diary, guys. Unless it's a character trait that the writer looks into a thesaurus every two seconds, that isn't natural. Sometimes we can have stuff like "I totally failed my spelling lol. But you know what? I don't even care. Yesterday I patronised a carouse."

I agree! Also, another pet peve of mine is when people have an entry like

Dear Derp,
This person joined.
[Pet image]
Popular: Name and interests?
New person: Blah blah blah.
Popular: OMG I hate you. Go to outcasts.

Bye, derp!

I think somebody else mentioned it a few pages back, but it still bugs me. One last pet peve (I have a lot. .__.) : SPAM. Lots of diaries have what I call OCC spam, which is like talking, but in their diary thread. People should really use PM!

[Snowflakette]

I agree with both of you. I sometimes see people spamming up someone else's diaries with stuff that's completely irrelevant to the topic. It might annoy the author and other people trying to read the diary (though it happens on my thread, I never really get mad at them).

Oh, another pet peeve? Copying. I'm not saying that anyone copied, but I do see similar plots, for example, let's say the Blueberry made the Blueberry Dictionary which includes words I made up myself, and then someone walked by and copied the whole thing, without giving credit or even asking for permission. (That didn't happen, just a random example).

One last thing I sometimes rant about is people bumping their diaries. I think a mentioned this before in page 70 or so, but this is something that gets me on the nerves. Bumping just creates lots and lots of spam. You only need to bump when the topic falls off the front page, and a "Bump Topic" button will appear on the bottom of the page, where you can simply bump it without using space (plus it will disappear when another post is made). So the point is, I don't understand why "man made" bumping is necessary among diaries.

I am so peeved right now

(Sorry if this makes the HQ a rant party, I don't know where else to say this.)

[pinkgeneguy]

I don't really mind Diary spam...it keeps me going when I get to reply when I am sitting in my hospital bed.

[trees |-/]

gonna dig up a bunch of old diaries i made

[Piefan]

I agree! Also, another pet peve of mine is when people have an entry like

Dear Derp,
This person joined.
[Pet image]
Popular: Name and interests?
New person: Blah blah blah.
Popular: OMG I hate you. Go to outcasts.

Bye, derp!

I think somebody else mentioned it a few pages back, but it still bugs me. One last pet peve (I have a lot. .__.) : SPAM. Lots of diaries have what I call OCC spam, which is like talking, but in their diary thread. People should really use PM!

Yeah, that type of post is... kinda dull. I understand that introductions are important, but it's barely an introduction when all we find out about someone is 'Queen Bee hates her, she likes music.' I know that, realistically, people don't give a description of their entire week down to what kind of meat they had for breakfast, but come on.

As for copying - I haven't actually had it happen to me, and I never actually created much myself. xD Just elemental spirits, which aren't all that rare, along with a very vague country (all we know about it politically is that it buys water from other countries and has a treaty with Pawland), which would be pretty boring to write about. It should be pretty frustrating, though.

[oh my no]

woooooooo hey guys im working on my diary for once
i just need to learn how to correctly word things and get into the mind of a teenager
i also need to decide how i will set up my diary will it be like

lolnamehere;; lolwordz
i guess
its not even important is it
ohdear

anyway
i think my diary will be 40 percent bad writing, 20 percent cliché, 20 percent weird, 20 percent lame
that's how i roll

[trees |-/]

asdfghjkl;'
best diary ever

[*Midnight Stars*]

I would read it.