spill (for clarification)

[digitalusrex.livejournal.com]

in incubus dreams, i got about halfway through before i began unofficially counting the number of times miss laurell used the world "spill" (or "spilled," "spilling," etc). unofficially, i counted maybe 8 or 9 "spills" before i started officially counting. 32 after that.

having started re-reading danse macabre, in the first 160 pages or so: 11. [EDIT: 16 at 314 pages. EDIT EDIT: 21 at 383 pages (also, 4 times on one page!)]

i know i have favorite words that i like to use, but this goes above and beyond. now, while reading danse macabre, i've tried to decide if other words could have been substituted and stayed true to the original meaning of the passage. yep.

a LOT of things annoy me about the series, especially the last 4 books, but this "spill" nonsense is what is bugging me this week. if miss laurell had an editor with ballz, perhaps it would have made a difference?

have you all noticed this overusage of the word "spill"?

Comments

[shadowbloodwing.livejournal.com]

Spill and nude. Most overused words ever! "Nude" is something a model is when they're posing for an art class, not something you say during foreplay. LKH needs a thesaurus and/or dictionary. Doesn't even have to buy them, there's a vast internet out there for her to utilize if she ever gets that smart. I don't see that happening anytime soon, but a girl can dream right?

Somehow I doubt it's the editor's fault. They're payed to check for spelling and grammar errors, not point out to the author that she's a stupid bitch in need of a bigger vocabulary.

[roguetailkinker.livejournal.com]

I can actually see using "nude" for just wandering around sans attire the way the lycanthropes do all the time. But when you're stripping for sex, it's not nude. It's naked.

Maybe it should be "nekkid" . . .

[wonderbink.livejournal.com]

How does that line go? "Naked is when you don't have any clothes on. Nekkid is when you don't have any clothes on, and you're up to something."

Re: Maybe it should be "nekkid" . . .

[roguetailkinker.livejournal.com]

Argh, I know it was from some comedian, it had nude "when you have no clothes on", naked, and nekkid "when you have no clothes on and are up to no good!", but I don't remember the whole joke. :P