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Pet Peeve #32 - Bad Editing

by JM
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After going through a lot of fantastic entries, I picked the one that kept me coming back for more reads and got me smiling every time I read it.

Congratulations to Jennifer Shirk for her pet peeve post on bad editing! She will receive a $25 amazon.com gift certificate along with her post as Fiction Scribe’s Pet Peeve #32.

Thank you to everyone who participated.

Bad editing:

I picked up a book a few months ago that sounded cute. I started reading it and had formed a mental picture of what the heroine looked like.

You with me so far? Good. Because then something happened.

She changed hair color.

Yes. She changed hair color about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way through the book. And I don’t mean “she went to the beauty salon for a new look� changed hair color.

No. All of a sudden she was a blonde. Poof. Just like that.

So I had to go back to the first chapter and double check my mistake. Surely I must have just thought she was a brunette. But no. There it was. The hero thinking to himself what a pretty brunette she was.

Ah-ha! So it wasn’t me. Someone had made a booboo.

Grrr.


Posted in Contests, Pet Peeves on August 14th, 2007

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3 Responses to “Pet Peeve #32 - Bad Editing”

  1. Jennifer Shirk Says:
    August 14th, 2007 at 6:17 am

    Um… I think that was my entry.

    Bad editing again. Grrr.

  2. JM Says:
    August 14th, 2007 at 6:32 pm

    I apologize. I should know better than to multitask.

  3. Jennifer Shirk Says:
    August 14th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    Pobody’s nerfect. :)

    Thanks for picking my entry!

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