Could you Be a Little More Specific?
Aug. 14th, 2012 05:56 pmI've officially come to absolutely despise the description "and he was injured in the side," "he felt a pain in his side," "he was bleeding from his side," and other variations in which the character was "supposedly" wounded in the side. Because here I am thinking 'okay, so the injury is above the hip or under the ribs or on the ribs or under the armpit' only for the injury to be on the stomach (and, yes, I swear, it always ends up being the stomach. It's practically a guarantee that when a character is injured on the side the actual location is the stomach). Which, maybe I'm wrong, but isn't something you would associate with being considered the side of the body. Now, if it had been a matter of "the right side of the body" okay, I can see that, a little, but most authors just go with "side" and leave it at that, which considering how much "side" the body has to offer can't really be considered a specific location.
And I don't get it. Because how hard is it to name a specific location for an injury? If the injury is on the stomach then say the stomach. Don't give me some vague location when there's no reason to only to offer specifics chapters down the road.
It also got me wondering if anyone else has been soured toward a particular description or word or even trope because of fanfic, or any written media, really. Giggle, belly, comfy, and snuggle are a few more words I have little tolerance for (I once read a published book where I swear the author had a belly fetish. He would not stop using that word whenever he could and it drove me crazy).
And I don't get it. Because how hard is it to name a specific location for an injury? If the injury is on the stomach then say the stomach. Don't give me some vague location when there's no reason to only to offer specifics chapters down the road.
It also got me wondering if anyone else has been soured toward a particular description or word or even trope because of fanfic, or any written media, really. Giggle, belly, comfy, and snuggle are a few more words I have little tolerance for (I once read a published book where I swear the author had a belly fetish. He would not stop using that word whenever he could and it drove me crazy).