I knew I had peeves about writing, but until I started this post, I'd never realised how many I had - and how very strongly I felt about them. So many in fact, I had to stop myself degenerating from peevish to rantish. I may or may not have succeeded on this last point, so consider yourselves warned. The inspiration for this post comes via the very-cool Larysia and the inimitably-joyous JD Estrada . They have each made excellent points about their particular writing peeves in their blogs - in admirably un-peevish ways - which are well worth reading. Check out Larysia's here and JD's here . In fact, while you're there, take the time and check out their blogs more generally.