You can't even excuse that by calling it a typo the way you sometimes can for things like "it's" vs. "its", or the infamous "your"/"you're".
But my personal favourite 'type' of bad writing is the one committed by people who try SO HARD to be all intelligent and lyrical and use words most of us have never encountered outside of a poetry book... in all the wrong ways. The wrong placement of the word 'lissome' can really ruin a sex scene.
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Date: 2008-06-21 02:47 pm (UTC)You can't even excuse that by calling it a typo the way you sometimes can for things like "it's" vs. "its", or the infamous "your"/"you're".
But my personal favourite 'type' of bad writing is the one committed by people who try SO HARD to be all intelligent and lyrical and use words most of us have never encountered outside of a poetry book... in all the wrong ways. The wrong placement of the word 'lissome' can really ruin a sex scene.
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Date: 2008-06-21 08:56 pm (UTC)