Repetitious phrases
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It's my impression that something proffered should be physically present in front of someone.
I only noticed you using it once, honestly...but Andy and Mike, on the other hand, use it enough to provide ample fodder for TrekLit readers' drinking games. At first, I thought it was just a word Marco liked...then they started writing ENT novels under Margaret Clark's guidance and used it even more frequently!
I do think Trek writers have their pet phrases, but they aren't any different from most authors in that regard.
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There was a run of early Pocket novels where it seemed the characters always "came on the bridge". Kirk came on the bridge. McCoy and Chapel came on the bridge. Spock finally came on the bridge. Uhura came on the bridge and gave Kirk a smile, etc.
Not a good book to read after seeing Leslie Nielson and Robert Hayes make double entendres in "Airplane" (aka "Flying High").
Not a good book to read after seeing Leslie Nielson and Robert Hayes make double entendres in "Airplane" (aka "Flying High").
All writers have tics and pet phrases. I freely admit that my characters "spasm convulsively" too much or maybe they "convulse spasmodically." Words and phrases "escape their lips" so often that they should probably be locked up for good. And characters' mouths tend to be "as dry as the Sahara/the Kalahari/Vulcan's Forge/insert-arid-locale-of-choice."
When you're writing a book a month, you have to fall back on your usual tricks sometimes.
P.S. Dave, sorry to hear you're going through a rough spell. I can sympathize.
When you're writing a book a month, you have to fall back on your usual tricks sometimes.
P.S. Dave, sorry to hear you're going through a rough spell. I can sympathize.
This thread has actually proven useful. With it in memory, I realized the other day that I tend to abuse of the word 'sirocco'. Need to find more synonyms for clouds of dust and debris... or write less stories with clouds of dust and debris in them.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
And, of course, Lovecraft pretty much ruined "eldritch" for the rest of us!
Except that now it makes me think of Andrew Eldritch, of the legendary goth band Sisters of Mercy. No one seems to have reclaimed squamous or rugose, though...
I find myself going through phases with certain words. Right now, I'm in love with the word "scrutinize", though I don't know why. For a while, it was the word "consequently", which--aside from almost never fitting the rhythm of a sentence correctly--had me actually looking for sentences where I could use it. Just one of those weird psychological twitches of the creative process.
There's a very inconsequential line from Camelot that I put in all my plays and librettos. I even snuck it into one of my three SNW stories.
And, no. I won't.
--Ted
And, no. I won't.
--Ted
I had not heard about this. I am reading Krad's CSI:NY novel right now and loving it. When does it come out?
As have I.
Cool! I hope all you folks like the book. I'm perversely proud of the fact that I came up with a form of mortal remains that (as far as I know) had never been explored on the tv show before: shrunken heads!
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