User blog comment:Banned In CP/Common Flaws in CP Writing/@comment-26475800-20180209022857

Pacing is a huge issue. People will write about pointless crap, going on and on trying to get a point across, when it would only take once sentence and the idea is understood. The idea of getting the most information to a reader in the fewest words seems to be lost somewhere.

Tension is another problem. Just because something is scary, and you tell the reader, not show, the scary thing doesn’t build up any tension.

But I think the biggest thing I see is when a writer doesn’t give any data about the protagonist, or the antagonist. They will write a story, listing a series of events that happen to this one guy, only to have it end in his death. Who cares. As a reader you want to see yourself, at least a little, in what you’re reading. So if you have nothing more than Bill was a teenager who likes to wear ball caps, and pissed himself when the monster cane out, that doesn’t do anything.

Those are the biggest things I see that will turn me off, at least that haven’t been beaten into the dirt below.