First, let me say this again. Before you put your book on Amazon, please get an editor. No book is going to be 100% perfect. However it shouldn’t be completely littered with issues.
Just because you have a thesaurus doesn’t mean you need to use every single word in it.
The word ‘said’ is a perfectly acceptable dialogue tag. It’s not necessary to use every possible tag except said.
If you are going to use an adverb to infer rapid movement, the word ‘quickly’ is fine. You don’t need to use ‘expeditiously’ when describing how the character walked down the sidewalk.
Please, for the love all that’s holy and unholy, if your characters are in an intimate scene remember the guy can shout, yell, scream but do not used ‘he ejaculated’ as a dialogue tag. It does not work in that kind of scene.
And while I’m up here on my soap box, ‘jolted’ is not a good choice for a dialogue tag. People don’t jolt words.
Okay, rant over. You may now return to your regularly scheduled day.
“He Ejaculated.” I don’t think I could use that as a dialogue tag. I wouldn’t ba able to stop laughing.
You and me both, lol
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Oh do I agree!
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LOL I’m cracking up! Agreeing while cracking up.
The above issues are all issues in the book I’m currently, and unfortunately reading.
My wife is a professional editor and English professor. If I ATTEMPTED to get that usage past her, she would banish me to the couch.
My editor would likely buy a plane ticket just so she could come here and hit me over the head with a shovel if I tried that, lol
Shovels are serious business. That’s a message! 🙂
I always try to banish the word ‘was’ or ‘had’…they have their place, but get overused a lot.
There are always words I try to banish. Usually once I become hyper-aware of words I’m over using, I correct that and start new bad habits. 🙂
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Loved this! You forgot “retorted” 😉
Ugh, yes retorted is another. I think I’m allergic to that word.