kriadydragon | (Reply)

I've had words, just one little word, throw me right out of stories, before. Either that or a single sentence or description. I know it sounds like I'm being uber picky, but sometimes the type of words an author chooses lets me know the kind of story I'm getting into. For example, I was reading an M7 story by a British author who kept having the characters say things like "bloody." Sorry, but Americans, especially those from the west and the south, don't say "bloody" in regular conversation. All the author had to do was leave out the word bloody and it would have been fine. As it was, I couldn't kept reading. Each time someone said bloody, it was like tripping over a log and falling on my face, and I couldn't take it any more.