Heh. Just helping the world, one word at a time. :D I didn't mean to be hard on you--I was trying to be more neutral, as in, *if* you've found this to be a repetitive device you rely on, now that you recognize it you can vary it.
I still haven't gotten to reading Into the Reach yet--you know how it is, trying to balance all the reading I have to do--so I don't know from your writing whether it's overused or not. Just that it's a general trend I see that sometimes writers can rely heavily on a particular phrase or device so much it starts to stand out.
I think the easiest example of that is Robert Jordan and breasts. And tugging braids. And eyes flashing. And women snorting. After 4 or 5 books of that (I made halfway through 10 before giving up on him, but that's another story), I started looking at the people around me wondering just how often a person might snort or pull a braid when they're angry.
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Date: 2007-05-01 07:10 pm (UTC)I still haven't gotten to reading Into the Reach yet--you know how it is, trying to balance all the reading I have to do--so I don't know from your writing whether it's overused or not. Just that it's a general trend I see that sometimes writers can rely heavily on a particular phrase or device so much it starts to stand out.
I think the easiest example of that is Robert Jordan and breasts. And tugging braids. And eyes flashing. And women snorting. After 4 or 5 books of that (I made halfway through 10 before giving up on him, but that's another story), I started looking at the people around me wondering just how often a person might snort or pull a braid when they're angry.