/lit/ - Literature

Confess your sins ITT. What have you done in your writing that you look down on in others? Either because it was convenient or because you didn't know any better?

>less retarded version of the author falls in love with manic pixie girl
>seven layers of plot armor for characters who should have had bad shit happen to them like 10 sentences in
>romantic and/or graphic sex scene for no reason except you wanting them to since they met
>mysterious open end (if done out of laziness/inability to come up with an epilogue)
>idiot savant saves the day
>tuff butch lesbian in boots forced to disney up for an event; looks absolutely stunning
>MC's rival seemingly too dumb to use cutlery yet comes up with the darndest schemes
>unexplained, arguably uncalled for deus ex machina
>in the same vein: magical realism used to explain shit out of nowhere in an otherwise unrelated story
>lurked tvtropes for ideas