“She walked”– no, “She strolled”– no…
September 18th, 2007There’s probably a coding corollary for this. 90% of my effort is spent on 10%
of the sentences. And every once in a while there’s a total bugbear of a
sentence that follows me to the grocery store and haunts my shopping
experience.
She perambulated…
Cantered, sauntered, traipsed. Gosh, what kind of groceries do you get for a bugbear?
trundled . . .
schlepped herself . . .
sashayed . . .
This is fun, I like this.
Bugbears like beer.
… stumbled in a drunken stupor…
I know exactly what you mean. I often stick them in square brackets — [she walked] — so I can come back to it later. Then, when I finish the story and get all excited about finishing, I come back to it and think “Oh, bugger, this still isn’t done.”
Well, this is usually during the rewrite phase. But yeah.