So many people's fics would be improved with a good thesaurus and a dictionary so they can figure out the nuances.
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Dawson's Creek??
Well, I said it was guilty. And there really are some good Pacey/Joey stories out there. I've just read all of them, and so was have been trying new things. Not good.
thinking about "tender fenestrations"
Windows have feelings too, Nutty.
I was just reading a published book in which someone was waiting for something with "baited breath," and I got annoyed at the typo, but then I realized that the thing he was waiting for was fish, and I got confused as to whether it was actually a typo or just a really bad pun.
tender fenestrations
I am now officially envisioning a Dawson's Creek/French Revolution crossover fiction attempt, in which Marie Antoinette (who was, after all, famous for shoving her hairdresser out the window to his death on the cobbled court a few storeys below) tries to seduce Pacey with promises of cake.
http://www.capesidediaries.com/showfic.php?ficid=417
Crimean War Dawson's Creek Fiction
(It actually isn't that bad, and I like the other stuff the author writes.
BTW, can I alternately thank everyone for forgiving my sloppy typing (this, as well as not seeing the typos when I read before posting, is apparently a side effect of this damned multiple sclerosis), and bless the fact that the phoenix, unlike most boards, doesn't set my poor typing in stone after 30 minutes?
So I can go fix "corssover", for instance.
Crimean War Dawson's Creek Fiction
(blinking) - into the Creek of Dawson rode the Six Hundred? Must check this out.
Although, okay, what is a good word for that?
What's wrong with the old-fashioned "caresses" or, for that matter, "foreplay"?
As far as sloppy typing, that would be the pot calling the kettle black, and wrod, on the editing chances.
My current pet peeve isn't a badfic thing, it's just over used: "ghosted across". Susan's right, "caress" is good, "slid" is a good as well. There's really nothing wrong with the phrase itself, except I see it too much.