People using a song lyric or a line of poetry as their title or their summary, and putting it all in lowercase, like e.e.cummings.
"he caressed her like the stars"
"we are cradled by the ocean"
Nonsensical stuff like that. Pretentious, and doesn't tell me what the story is ABOUT.
It's not just teenagers who do this. Seemingly intelligent writers do this. Apparently some people are too cool for capitalization, and they want to seem mysterious and "deep", hence the stoned-sounding phrases.
Re: Fic pet peeves
People using a song lyric or a line of poetry as their title or their summary, and putting it all in lowercase, like e.e.cummings.
"he caressed her like the stars"
"we are cradled by the ocean"
Nonsensical stuff like that. Pretentious, and doesn't tell me what the story is ABOUT.
It's not just teenagers who do this. Seemingly intelligent writers do this. Apparently some people are too cool for capitalization, and they want to seem mysterious and "deep", hence the stoned-sounding phrases.