From GeorgeGlass on November 01, 2020 @GeorgeGlass
Thank you for the review and detailed thoughts! I hope the pacing was about right and it’s cool to hear it rewarded a second read.
Sorry about this. I had a lot more “said Bradley” “Said Tommy” originally, and then cut it back probably too far. I guess as it is I could argue they both sound really similar as dudebro types but it’s never good to unintentionally cause clarity issues for a reader.
“C’mon, man, I live here. The women don’t wear bras. I see tits all day.”
“Yeah, but look at this fireheaded ghost-looking girl’s pierced’ns.”
“...Nice.”
If it is, then it isn’t intentional! I’m not sure what version of Night on Earth had a pumpkin get fucked. I just think of the nature doc. Of course, it’s possible I did encounter this and forgot
Townie over there’s got a multi-volume little black book Ronnie, too, she’s only going out the room to give Tommy some space with Shannon, otherwise they’d probably have to peel her off with a crowbar.
Thanks! Go nuts! Like somewhere in his hindbrain a little voice is going “Two legs good, four legs bad, ok, but this one has two even though it feels like four somehow, oh grandma what big teeth you have...”
I think we only ever saw him shoot one rapist in the dick, but I like to think there was a lot more of it off camera!
Ack! For the second one it should be “or even barehanded”, because Tommy’s enhanced strength makes him fairly lethal even without all the muscles, but it won’t let me edit chapters now. I should have waited a week and re-read it before posting Thanks for pointing it out.
For the ‘creaked heavily’ this is a phrase I’ve seen quite a few times (cliche alert!) to refer to the creak of wood or newer/stiffer types of leather to indicate it’s a deeper/base creak as opposed to the higher pitch creak of metal eg with an un-oiled hinge. At least, that’s how I’ve taken it to be used – it is entirely possible I’ve had a misunderstanding in which case I should probably have used ‘creaked loudly’. Another reason for her sitting so quiet and still, stopping it creaking out of noise-avoiding habit
Thanks for pointing both of these out! General rule of thumb is if a sentence I’ve written doesn’t make sense it’s going to be an unintended rather than intended nonsense.
Thanks! I was trying to fit a snake eyes roll in somewhere with the general snakiness, and that was pretty much my last shot at it. Glad it came off as a phrasing – I guess I didn’t crap out on that one!
Thanks again to you, and the other folks, for the reviews. Always appreciated!