Things your favorite authors do that annoy you

[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

@Dr.Winston_OBoogie

Not quite that bad, but I read his expanded version of The Stand. I liked parts that he added back in that had been edited out originally, and absolutely HATED where he tried to modernize the story. Those parts felt very ham-handed.

And this reminds me of this:

@Dung_Beetle

Reddit users discussing Stephen King. Someone says he writes like an old man (which he is). Someone provides this example of what it would be like if Mr. King were a bit more current:

The man in black yeeted across the desert, and the gunslinger simped.

The desert hit different, huge, standing to the sky for what looked like eternity in all directions. It was sus and cringe and low-key in need of a glow up.