Confessions of overused words

[Toby Frost]

Thanks Ursa!

I think it's easy to fall into a sort of tic with these. It's also easy, once you've noticed it, to start using ridiculously elaborate alternatives. I'm quite reassured to see that other people have difficulty remembering whether their characters are standing up or sitting down!

 

[2ndchance]

My characters are forever having sex, I wonder if it has anything to do with the smoking he-heeee.

In all seriousness, one of them is forever plonking her elbows on the table and leaning her chin in her hand. Of course her mum says, get ya' elbows off the damn table...

And this flippin looking, gazing, staring thing people do, just read the paper, or watch the TV, or better still play on the computer, then I won't have such a problem writing it up.

YA fantasy 13 words, THE COMPUTER.

She switched the computer on, switched the computer off, and went to bed. End

Surely not the way our kiddiwinkles behave I hear you cry. Best seller I suspect, although it might be truth and as such no longer a fantasy, WHAT?

 

[2ndchance]

And I am forever using forever, as you can see.

And I looove the intransative verb forbear, her dad says it all the time, arse... I hate him...

Don't suspect, I know what your thinking, out with it, lol.