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meg_evonne:
Okay, a simple plea for help.  Men, I would like to know what women you date do that really irritates you---not enough to walk away, but could be lived with if this woman was really who you wanted in your life...

I've got an irritating, bosy female character that ends up with a fairly regular guy...  So I'm making her grate against his sensibilities until they get together.  I came up with a couple things, but I'm looking for a slew of stuf.

help me out?  Thanks in advance! 

Yeratel:
Actually, I wouldn't date any girl who really irritated me more than once. A girl who is good looking and good in bed can get away with a lot with most guys. A woman who is of the type the French call a belle laide doesn't even need to be particularly good looking. I think someone who couldn't stop talking about nothing in particular, and who had a voice like Fran Drescher that grates on the nerves would begin to get tiresome eventually, though, no matter how sexy her appearance.

ballplayer72:
if she perhaps had a specific taste in something, that anything else was simply unacceptable as a substitute.  Perhaps she does not voice her desires well, and expects the guy to "just know"  We hate that, We are not a mind reader.  Perhaps she gets a little bitchy sometimes. thats all i can think of right now ;D

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Why does this have to be a gender-specific thing ?

If you want to do something really irritating that isn't going to make either character unsympathetic enough that nobody will be made happy by them getting together, it's a tough call.  Maybe one of them being ADDish and the other mildly obsessive-compulsive ? That would be something where they could drive each other bananas without it being anyone's fault.

I'm kind of out of sympathy with people who grate on each other but get together in the end as a literary trope, I've yet to see a version of it done that didn't make me want to slap one or both characters with a large fish and say "Have higher standards, damn it !" but.. that isn't helping you make it work, it's just realising I'm probably not the target audience for this story.

akasha...of the strawberries:
A couple of things come to mind...My hubby likes to correct my grammer and pronunciation and sometimes it just completely grates my nerves...other times I just tell him to get over it...we live in Lou., Ky and although I can speak properly when I need to, I choose not to at home.  You can always have a particular word or phrase that drives your character nuts.  I say 'dude' a lot.  I did when my hubby and I started dating and I got over it for a while...and then I started watching Lost...I swear, I think he hates Hurley... :D

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