spill (for clarification)
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lkh_lashoutsin 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"?
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"?
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Date: 2007-06-12 04:37 am (UTC)wading through the filth ofreading LKH.So far, Dead to the World is my favorite, but even so, I have a hard time considering it fluff. Brainless, considering that yeah, you can sort of pick out what's going to happen, but not really fluff.
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Date: 2007-06-12 06:09 am (UTC)Somewhere I saw reference to her possibly writing the first books as a sort of sarcastic rebuttal to similar "paranormal chick" books, and it was meant to be read as such, but I honestly never noticed as I thought they sucked on their own. "I'm pretty. I have nice boobs. I also have internal dialogue that manages to be more boring than watching paint dry. Did I mention I also have nice boobs?"