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

[leggomylegolas.livejournal.com]

She also says things are "a line" a lot. "Like a line of fire" "his body was a line of muscle" wtf does that mean, Laurel.

"Made it a question" makes me want to hurt people. All you have to do is use one of THESE: "?" and we'll know, ok?

Anne Rice does it with "in sum". It's in every book multiple times. So fucking annoying.

[stickfigurepeep.livejournal.com]

The fact that the tone of his voice raised at the end of the sentence made it a question. The fact that his mother was a Valley Girl and he had adopted that habitual cadence of speech from her made it annoying.

I hate when people talk like that, but I can totally picture Nathaniel ending every sentence with an upward inflection. "Anita, do you love me? Because I made you some cookies? And I was thinking we should have sex? And maybe Micha could join? 'Cause I drool for his super hawt meat log? Even though I'm not gay? 'Cause gay is, like, so totally gross? I mean, eeww, Right?"